09-26-2011 - The Washtenaw Voice

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WCC welcomes students to Fall semester, showcases
clubs and activities on Welcome Day.
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September 26, 2011
After numerous delays, WCC takes to the athletic fields.
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The Fall tailgating tradition continues for football fans,
but are their eats safe?
Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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washtenawvoice.com
New 9/11 memorial: a footprint of remembrance
Matt Durr
Editor
new york – A chain link
fence covered top to bottom
with baby blue signage separates passersby from seeing
what’s inside. Not that they
don’t already know that just
over the fence, is Ground
Zero, the site that serves as
a constant reminder of possibly the saddest day in our
nation’s history.
But instead of being the
never ending pile of destruction it was 10 years ago,
Ground Zero now serves as a
beautiful, emotional memorial to those who perished in
the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
The 9/11 Memorial opened
to the public on Sept. 12, allowing visitors to actually
tour the grounds of the former World Trade Center for
the first time in 10 years. The
memorial also allows visitors
to grieve at the site where
many lost their lives.
“It’s nice to do something
to remember those who gave
their lives,” said Doug Besch,
a New York City resident.
“Day-to-day, the people of
New York have a place to go
and remember.”
Besch was visiting the
memorial to pay respect to a
high school friend who died
at the Pentagon on 9/11.
Jonas Martin Panik was
MCT COURTESY PHOTOS
GROUND ZERO CONTINUED A5
The 9/11 Memorial in New York was opened to the public for the first time on Monday, September 12. The north pool of the memorial is in the shadow of the unfinished Freedom Tower.
Building a brighter future Too much cheating, students say
Habitat for Humanity volunteers pave the way
BOB CONRADI THE WASHTENAW VOICE
Fatuma Alinoti, 45, a WCC occupational study student from Ann Arbor, works at the counter of the ReStore. Fatuma started working with
Habitat for Humanity as a volunteer.
Raquet, of Dexter, is a
house leader with Habitat for
Humanity of Huron Valley.
Tim Raquet loves his job.
His job is to train and direct
“As I tell people, this is the volunteers as they rehabilitate
best job ever,” Raquet said, houses for families who could
“You know, ‘cause I’m helping not otherwise afford one.
a good family, and the volunBefore taking this job, Rateers are always really excited quet worked in construction,
to be here, ‘cause they know attended college at Washtthey’re doing something re- enaw Community College and
ally great for the community, Eastern Michigan Universo they’re enthusiastic. . . I sity, taught math in Ypsilanti
just think it can’t get any bet- and prepared for law school.
ter than that.”
Meanwhile, he regularly volBob Conradi
Staff Writer
Anne Duffy
Staff Writer
Most people think of academic cheating as looking
at another’s paper during an
exam or plagiarism, taking
another’s work from a book or
the Internet, and passing it off
as their own.
Many instructors and administrators are well aware
of these forms of academic
dishonesty and Washtenaw
Community College has
sanctions in place for those
that cheat. However, there is
something more sinister at
work here at WCC: collusion:
A group of people working together exchanging information to cheat or have academic
gain for themselves.
“Usually they have one sacrificial person that will take
the test first and they will
come out and tell everybody
else what’s on it and what to
study,” said Diana Rus, 19, of
Saline whose major is undeclared.
“I saw a bunch of nursing
students. They were all wearing the scrubs and what not.
Two people came out (of The
unteered at Habitat. After
seven years as a volunteer, he
accepted a staff position as a
house leader. Soon, he gave up
his law ambitions. He was having too much fun.
Another house leader, Paul
Tamoshunas of Ann Arbor,
Matt Durr
echoes Raquet’s feelings.
Editor
“I would love to be here as
long as I can,” said TomoshuThe Fall semester at
nas, “They’re going to have to Washtenaw Community Coldrag me out of here kicking lege is a little over a month old
and President Rose Bellanca
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
is adjusting as any new stuCONTINUED A5
dent would, slowly.
“It has been a very easy adjustment, everyone is so welcoming,” Bellanca said. “WCC
is a very nice, pleasing environment to work in. This college has really superseded my
expectations and they were
would affect them, including very high.”
the information regarding a
The new president was
student’s need to declare a also surprised to learn that
program major to continue college had so many student
the flow of aid.
activities and clubs on camTake Kim Hurns, a busi- pus.
ness and marketing instructor, for example.
“I believe that the execution of the notification was
handled poorly,” said Hurns,
who explained that while
many emails were sent out
students, most of them don’t
check their own accounts.
“We all know from experience that students don’t check
their email,” Hurns said. “We
know that and administration
knows that. Especially over
the summer months when
Ben Solis
Angered instructors and
students who have begun to
blame Washtenaw Community College’s counseling department and college administrators for recent financial
aid woes may be shooting arrows at the wrong apple.
“We’ve had financial aid
issues since the beginning of
time,” said Linda Blakey, associate vice president of Student Services. “This is nothing new.”
Since late June, students
and instructors were notified in various ways, through
emails and personal letters
mailed to home addresses,
about the new financial aid
requirements that called for
students receiving aid to declare their program majors in
order to monitor appropriate
pace of completion, according
to Blakey.
Even after four separate
emails were sent out to everyone, she said, many students
and instructors did not take
notice – or comply with new
regulations to fulfill those requirements. Students were
given to the last night of registration, Aug. 24, to declare
their major.
Students who did not lost
their financial aid.
However, many instructors, as well as students, felt
that they did not receive an
early enough notification
of how the new regulations
The Testing Center has
rules in place to prevent
cheating, such as color coded
tests for different subjects so
those students with the same
color tests cannot sit together.
The center also encourages
teachers to give out different
versions of the same test, but
many instructors do not.
Essentially, a teacher who
utilizes the Testing Center
runs the risk of the students
being more apt to collusion
outside its doors.
“We can’t prevent students
“The temptation
from sitting out in the hallto cheat is really
way, and that’s the reason why
strong and seemsome instructors won’t use us
ingly easier to do
because they understand we
can’t police that,” said Allen
now because of
Wurster, manager of the Testthe technology
ing Center.
we have.”
“It’s definitely the trust system,” said Noel Al-Awar, 19,
-Tom Zimmerman
undeclared major from Ann
Arbor. “It’s a bunch of 18- to
Instructors use the Test- 20-somethings. You can’t exing Center so they can have pect them not to take advanmore instruction time when tage of that.
a course is very rigorous, such
“If you go to the Testing
as nursing. Instructors give Center you get a long time
the students several days and frame to take a certain test so
up to a week to take a test at
the center.
CHEATING CONTINUED A5
Bellanca getting to
know her new college
Faculty complaints start a
campus-wide blame game
Managing Editor
Testing Center) and said, ‘Ok
this is what you have to know,
this is what you don’t have to
study, blah blah blah.’ It was
a group of six to eight people
and after that some of them
went inside and took the test,”
said Rus.
“There is a problem,” said
William Abernethy, dean of
the Department of Humanities, Social and Behavioral
Sciences. “There’s more of it
than I’d like to see.”
FINANCIAL AID BLAME CONTINUED A6
Dr. Rose Bellanca
Bellanca has admitted that
she is still too new to know
enough about campus issues
to comment directly on them.
“I’m still learning about
what I don’t know,” Bellanca
joked.
One way Bellanca has
learned about the campus has
been by having coffee hours
with faculty and staff on various dates. Bellanca has been
using the coffee hours to get
to know the faculty and to find
why they came to WCC and
why they stay at the college.
The gatherings have been
so well-attended that the first
seven scheduled dates filled
quickly.
Bellanca has also been
seen all over campus visiting
the different campus groups
and departments. She has
also been taking the time to
eat lunch in the first floor of
the Student Center and to talk
with students.
And making sure students
are happy is one of the first
priorities on her list. While
she is still gathering information, Bellanca is looking for
ways to make sure that evening students are having all of
their needs met.
“It’s really the heartbeat of
why we’re here, it’s the students,” Bellanca said.
‘Bongz & Thongz’
supporters to AA
officials: back off
Adrian Hedden
Staff Writer
When local retailer Bongz
& Thongz opened its doors on
Sept. 10, owners Steve Abouna
and Kilo Hassan were simply
hoping for a good time. Providing Ann Arbor shoppers
with water pipes and other tobacco paraphernalia, the shop
initially met some resistance
from the city because of the
adult content sold alongside
its smoking equipment.
Abouna remains firm that
the only agenda at Bongz and
Thongz is relaxation.
BONGZ & THONGZ CONTINUED A6
JARED ANGLE THE WASHTENAW VOICE
A selection of pipes at Bongz & Thongz.
News
The Washtenaw Voice
September 26, 2011
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Changing times, changing programs
WCC is continually updating curriculum to meet challenges of an ever-changing world
Jael Gardiner
Staff Writer
For Rosemary Wilson, the
dean of Business and Computer Technologies, keeping
classes fresh and current is
difficult. There are always
new strides made with computers, and it can be a challenge to make students as
employable as possible. Also,
it can mean that classes and
programs have to end.
“We’ve been phasing out
our drafting programs,” Wilson said. “While drafting is
still a skill that is utilized by
designers, engineers, architects, there has been a fundamental shift in that industry.
With all the software now, the
engineers and architects do it
themselves.”
Wilson described a new
class focused on the development of applications for Android devices. While this is a
great leap for the college, she
says that within a few years it
is very possible that Android
will no longer be a widely
popular operating system.
When this happens, the class
will need to end.
In the job market, some
workers are being replaced by
machines. Medical transcriptionists are workers who type
medical records for doctors,
and recently there has been
a large shift in that job field.
Many hospitals are outsourcing their transcription, and
others are switching to voice
recognition software.
“And that is why a few years
ago, we did actually have a
certificate for medical transcription,” Wilson said. “We
no longer offer a certificate in
that.”
Another program that is
getting some extra attention right now is the entrepreneurship program. This
a certificate that is designed
to help students to get themselves employed.
Programs all over the
school constantly need updating in order to keep with
the changes that are made
in the industries. In the auto
body program, there have
been some new classes added
that are set to run in the Winter semester. These are classes focused around alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles.
Other new processes are being woven into existing classes, such as the water-born
paint technology that is being
taught to auto body students.
“We have to stay really
involved with the industry,”
said Ross Gordon, the interim
dean of Vocational Technology. “So much has changed in
these industries, welding processes have changed, things
are being welded today that
have never been welded.”
Within the vocational
programs, few programs and
classes have ended. Instead,
many classes are continually
updated to keep with trends
in those fields. There are committees in each field that help
schools keep classes current.
Sometimes, industry changes
so much that programs and
classes have to come to an end.
“In the last two years, we’ve
rewritten pretty much the entire auto services curriculum,”
Gordon said. “I don’t focus as
much as on decommissioning
curriculum, as that I am that
we’re updating and replacing it. Just because a number changed, the heart of the
course didn’t change much.”
There have also been some
new additions to the construction program. There is
slated to be a class on sustainable building practices running this winter. These new
courses help students to keep
up with the new practices in
their industry.
With the brand new environmental science program,
most of the classes required
are ones that many students
have taken. Only two new
classes have been added, so
many students are already
well into this program.
“We had in this community sustainability issues,
with global warming and environmental change. This
seemed to really fit,” said
Martha Showalter, the dean
of Math, Science and Health.
“It seemed like there was a
natural laboratory, that was a
resource we could use for our
environmental program, the
building itself. It utilizes what
we already have.”
That program is located in
the Occupational Education
building, and it is going to
make the most out of the new
green additions to the building, such as the solar panels
and the geothermal system.
A fairly new program uses
another fairly new facility on
campus, the Health and Fitness Center.
“Another program that we
did was the exercise program,”
said Showalter. “As we were
giving a lot of focus on living
healthy, being healthy, it was
‘how do we educate ourselves
to do that?’ There are opportunities in a variety of ways,
like running a fitness center
or going for a four-year degree in kinesiology.”
The photography program
is being updated as well. Over
time, the methods that photographs are developed changes.
There is a darkroom in the
Gunder-Myran building, but
many students are most comfortable developing their photos with software like Photoshop and Lightroom.
“Introduction to photography used to be more of a darkroom class,” said Aaron Kline,
a teaching assistant. “You still
need a number of darkroom
hours to graduate.”
However,
sometimes
more stringent program requirements can be hard on
students. When classes are
added, it can take longer for
students to complete their
programs.
“It’s nice that they keep
the programs up to date,” said
Sarah Gibson, 17, a natural
science student from Manchester. “But the new requirements for the math and science degree are hard to fit in
with your time.”
YPSI SALVATION ARMY
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
If your club, church, organization or group is looking for
service opportunities in Ypsilanti, Salvation Army is in need
of volunteers on Mondays and
Thursday evenings at its Ypsilanti
Corps Community soup kitchen,
located at 9. S. Park St.
Volunteers can contact Jim Hulett at 734-482-4700 or via email
at [email protected].
org. All materials are provided.
BELLANCA NAMED
HONORARY CHAIR FOR
LITERACY FUNDRAISER
Washtenaw Community College President Rose Bellanca has
been named an honorary chair of
Washtenaw Literacy’s “World in
a Basket” fundraiser, which the
group has used as a key source of
funding for its work in teaching
illiterate adults to write and read.
The event will be held on Oct.
14 at the college’s Morris
Lawrence building, and will
SEPT. 27, BOARD OF
TRUSTEES MEETING
4 p.m. in ML 150
SEPT. 28, WII WEDNESDAY AND COLLEGE
VISITATIONS
Wii Wednesday will be from
11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Student
Center cafeteria. There will be
Wii games, as well as free pizza
and pop.
A representative from Cleary
University will visit from noon-3
p.m. on the first floor of the Student Center.
Representatives from Concordia University and Eastern
Michigan University will visit on
the second floor of the Student
Center from 1-5 p.m.
SEPT. 29, THURSDAY
SPEED BINGO AND COLLEGE VISITATION
Play Speed Bingo in the Student Center cafeteria from 11
a.m.-1 p.m. Snacks provided;
candy prize packs for the winners.
A representative from EMU
will visit on the second floor
of the Student Center from
noon- 4 p.m.
On ‘Moving Planet Day,’ the ‘LEV’ spots in Lot 4 were reserved for carpools.
‘Study In The States’ initiative helps
international students stay in school
Ben Solis
Managing Editor
In an effort to boost a
continued influx of international students into American universities and colleges,
Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) director John Morton
unveiled the “Study In The
States” initiative last week in
a press conference with student news publications via
phone at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison.
The initiative’s key aim,
which is comprised of a twopart system, was to keep international students coming
in and keeping them here
at what Napolitano called
“the finest institutions in the
world.
“We think it helps our entrepreneurial spirit,” she
said. “Having international
students at (U.S. colleges
and universities) benefits everyone from an educational,
cultural and entrepreneurial
perspective.”
In conjunction with ICE,
the DHS offered up their two
methods for keeping students
interested in American institutions.
The first is a new “onestop-shop” website, http://
studyinthestates.dhs.gov,
that will allow students to
interactively find answers to
any questions they may have
about U.S. studies and information of ways in which they
can participate in international studies and exchange
programs.
Questions about Visas,
Visa renewal, qualifications
and the capabilities as aligned
with respect to individuals
considering coming to the
United States, she said, can
now all be found in one convenient, online location.
The ability to find this information at one place online
is something that has never
been done before, according
to Morton.
“We have over 1.1 million
foreign students, visitors and
family members here in the
U.S. in 10,000 U.S. academic
institutions,” Morton said.
“What we’re trying to do is to
be welcoming and to encourage the best and the brightest
to come here and the same
time to have a system marked
by integrity.”
In regards to Visa registration and renewal, Morton
said that other than the website, his organization along
with a handful of other unnamed organizations were
shifting from a paper based
system to a fully Web-based
system of monitoring who
comes in, if the international
students are doing exactly
what they are here for and
which schools are keeping
in compliance under federal
regulations for hosting international students.
“We are moving to a fully
based Internet system,” Morton said. “It will allow us to
have a much greater degree
of control and to allow us to
monitor the compliance by
individual institutions based
on biometric prints. Through
these improvements, we will
have much more regular research of the academic institutions that are there, with
an eye of going after . . . fly-bynight institutions.”
The institution Morton
had referred to was Tri-Valley
University, which was raided
earlier this year by ICE on
charges that school was a
“sham” college used as a front
for issuing student Visa renewals to illegal immigrants.
The new system would allow ICE and DHS to monitor
the schools, its enrollment of
international students and
would help hire new administrators to help facilitate interactions between the schools
and the students, Morton said.
Yet both Morton and Napolitano reinforced that this
was not a witch hunt to find
out which students and institutions are abusing Visa compliance laws, but to open the
doors for new international
students.
When asked whether this
new initiative was a replacement to the stagnant Development, Relief and Education
for Alien Minors (DREAM)
Act, which would grant amnesty to illegal aliens if they
either joined the military or
enrolled in college, Napolitano answered no.
“We still encourage those
in Congress to move forward
to pass the DREAM Act,” Napolitano said.
For more information on the Study In The
States initiative, visit
http://studyinthestates.dhs.gov.
feature live and silent auctions
as well as a strolling dinner that
will help raise 20 percent of the
Washtenaw Literacy’s budget.
“World in a Basket” will also
help raise funds for the group’s
Pathways programming, that aids
intervention programs for young
adults. Bellanca will share the
honorary position with Detroit
Free Press columnist Rochelle
Riley.
WCC STUDENT PRESENTED WITH FIRST, NEW
COURSE CERTIFICATE
Audrey Johnson, of Ypsilanti, has been presented the first
Sewing Professional certificate,
according to the Department
of Lifelong Learning. Johnson
completed the course, which took
87 hours instruction.
The program provides instruction in basic and machine sewing
techniques, and has become
popular with professional seeking
credentials in that craft.
OCT. 1, THE INFERNAL
COMEDY PLAY
From 8-10 p.m. The Infernal
Comedy: Confessions of a Serial
Killer, a play about a serial killer
and journalist, will be playing in
the Hill Auditorium. Discounted
tickets available from the cashier’s office for $20.
OCT. 5, FALL TRANSFER
FAIR AND CARAMEL
APPLES
From 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on the
second floor of the Student Center, 50 colleges will have representatives on campus to meet
with students and answer questions.
Make it, Take it caramel
apples will be offered from 11
a.m.-1 p.m. in the Student Center
cafeteria.
OCT. 6, THURSDAY
SPEED BINGO AND
COLLEGE VISITATION
Play Speed Bingo from 11
a.m.-1 p.m. in the Student Center
cafeteria. Snacks provided; candy
prize packs for the winners.
A representative from EMU
will visit on the second floor
of the Student Center from
noon- 4 p.m.
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VOICE HEARD
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Campus Safety & Security has created a
brochure featuring safety tips for students
and visitors on campus. The following are
some of the highlights:
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Stay alert and be aware of your
surroundings. Avoid isolated areas.
Avoid waslking alone at night.
Notify Campus Safety & Security if you see suspicious or criminal
activity, or an emergency occurs.
IF WALKING ALONE
Stay alert. Keep your mind
on your surroundings. Don’t get
distracted. Walk purposefully, and
trust your instincts. Get away if you
feel uncomfortable.
SECURE YOUR VEHICLE
Never leave your vehicle running unattended. Lock all doors.
BICYCLE SECURITY
Invest in a good lock. Lock the
bike and its wheels to racks, not
trees or other posts.
To contact Campus Safety & Security, dial
3411 from any school phone, press the red
button on red security phones, or use your
cell phone to call (734) 973-3411.
Visit washtenawvoice.com for security
updates and more helpful tips.
The Rynearson shuttle has been replaced with a trolley-style bus.
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Voices
September 26, 2011
The Washtenaw Voice
EDITORIAL
INTERVIEWS BY ADRIAN HEDDEN STAFF WRITER
PHOTOS BY JARED ANGLE PHOTO EDITOR
Board members’ clash is a
refreshing change of pace
Newspapers not only enjoy arguments, they thrive
on them. When people disagree and bicker, we usually get a story out of it. At the Sept. 13 Washtenaw
Community College Board of Trustees meeting, a
rare disagreement between board members ensued.
And we loved it.
Board Chair Pam Horiszny and Trustee Richard
Landau openly expressed their displeasure with the
other’s point of view on a finance issue. The pointcounterpoint style disagreement was of great interest – mostly because of how uncommon it was.
Meetings of the board are by and large an unexciting, choreographed, formulaic process. The Sept.
13 meeting started off like any other. In fact it was a
jovial mood inside the board room, with jokes and
laughing. Board members even joked about a mistake in The Voice, which by the way we didn’t find
very funny.
Eventually, however, the meeting took a serious
turn when the mini-debate began.
It was refreshing to see a differing of opinions and
to see two sides each sharing their ideas in a public
place where we could all see where they stand. WCC
has great leaders and is on the forefront of community college education, but we would all be ignorant
to believe that arguments never happen.
Just because the members disagreed does not
mean they’re not on the same page, either. Some
of the best ideas come from a direct confrontation
at some point. And while we have no idea if their
relationships are solid, we can easily imagine
that the board members genuinely like and respect
one another.
As with any working environment, there are
bound to be differing opinions, and the WCC board
is no different. Most meetings inside the office of The
Voice have some sort of back-and-forth debating, and
occasionally a heated argument. Some of the best
decisions a newspaper makes are often followed by
door-slamming – and some colorful language.
But no one takes it personally, and neither will
this board. We’re sure the board will meet away from
public scrutiny, talk out their issues and get back on
the same page just in time for their next meeting. And
if they don’t, then The Voice will be there to cover it.
Remember, it’s what we thrive on.
“Never pick a fight with someone who
buys ink by the barrel.”
H.L. Mencken, journalist
The Washtenaw Voice
Volume 18, Issue 1
Question: What is your
opinion
regarding
the
recent federal requirement
for students applying for
financial aid to declare their
major before receiving it?
people should be
able to discover
what they want
to study. it’s
important to this
place. HEATHER
PIETRZAK, 19, Brighton,
physical therapy with dance
PACIU, 21,
Belleville, nursing
Give students a
year, after that
you should know
what you want.
LATOYA FIELD,
26, Saginaw,
I’m trying to
switch majors;
it’s a pain in the
butt. BRENNAN
MCCLOREY, 19,
Brighton,
pharmaceutical science
I understand that
People should find
there are budget
out what they want
issues to make
before being shoved
people get their act
into a degree.
together. MAX
KRISTIN CLAYHERNANDEZ, 23,
BRON, 21, Ypsilanti,
Ann Arbor, secondary education business management
childcare
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EDITOR
Matt Durr
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MANAGING EDITOR
Ben Solis
[email protected]
PHOTO EDITOR
Jared Angle
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DESIGN EDITOR
Josh Chamberlain
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DESIGN EDITOR
Ashley DiGiuseppe
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AD MANAGER
Becky Alliston
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STAFF WRITERS
Anne Duffy
Jael Gardiner
Anna Fuqua-Smith
Adrian Hedden
Allie Tomason
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Jesse Glacken
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It’s not fair that
you don’t always
get to choose.
There are other
classes people
might want to
take. JOSEPH CURRY, 26, Ann
Arbor, business
TO THE EDITOR:
I don’t understand how
the Testing Center could be
closed on Sundays because
of budget cuts. There are so
many students that work
during the week and need to
utilize the Testing Center on
the weekends, and now we
are limited to only Saturday
hours.
This makes no sense to me,
because working MondayFriday now I have to take all
my tests on Saturday. Wow,
this sucks, but I guess it’s only
an opinion of the few.
Just trying to work and
still get an education, but this
just makes it harder.
Sefina Ali
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Are tattoos too taboo? A point-counterpoint debate
will attempt to shed light on the issue.
Chuck Denton
Nathan Clark
When it comes to modern day tattoos, the
ancient Greeks had advice that some should
consider.
Know thy self, and in all things moderation.
It is one thing to get a small tattoo on your arm
but most Americans don’t like small and they
ignore advice that is older than their friends.
I remember the day my friend became an
adult. He declared he did not want to get married or deal with raising children so he walked
into the local medical clinic to see the doctor
about getting fixed with a vasectomy.
The old doc refused to perform the procedure but instead spent the time explaining to
him most men that get a vasectomy already
have a family and don’t want any more children. You on the other hand are a little young
to make a decision that will impact the rest of
your life.
He suggested waiting and it turned out to
be good advice – later my friend met a girl got
married and started a family.
So, after your first tattoo reflect, delay and
wait a while before getting the next tattoo. It is
good to get into the practice of reflection because you will gain more control over your life.
Try to discover within yourself the thing that
is driving your desire for more body art. Keep
asking yourself why?
After some time your subconscious will give
you the deeper meaning of the impulse you are
experiencing. Once you get into the practice of
reflection and control, you can apply your new
power to most anything.
On a more economic level, ask yourself will
this new body art on my face and neck impact
the rest of my life? Will it impact my employment options or be out of fashion in five to ten
years? What if you change your mind? It will
cost you a couple of grand to get the tattoo removed.
My friend’s wife still has her ex-boyfriend’s
name branded on her like she is his cattle.
Have you ever seen a tattoo on a seventy year
old body? It isn’t a pretty picture anymore.
Tattoo here, tattoo there, tattoos everywhere. Welcome to a new sign of the times
where you can be defined by how much ink has
been carved into your skin or how many minor
stab wounds you can treat to stay open.
Back in the 1950s, the only people who had
tattoos or piercings were criminals, sailors, degenerates and social exiles. Things sure have
changed haven’t they? Nowadays, it seems like
everybody has a tattoo or a piercing. People
without tattoos or piercings have become the
minority.
Some people might think of this as a bad
thing showing the social decline of America,
but I don’t see it that way. If anything, it shows
how social we all are.
Human beings are social animals. We crave
attention and acceptance, which is a very delicate balance. Having a tattoo or piercing will
get you attention but it won’t necessarily give
you acceptance.
There will still be people who judge others
with tattoos and label them social malcontents.
But these people have become a minority and
are slowly fading away with time.
Acceptance or not, everywhere you go you
will see someone with a tattoo or piercing.
Some people have tattoos or piercings that
you would never know about. The girl you see
downtown with four piercings in each ear and
eyebrow could be a starving artist or a bank
teller who removes her piercings before work.
Even I have a lot of tattoos from when I was
in the Army, but you would never know because most of them are always covered. I’m not
trying to conceal them, it’s just that walking
around naked tends to be frowned upon, but
that’s a different argument.
Face the facts. Everyone wants to fit in with
the people around them, even if that means
getting a care bear tattooed on your back. It
probably wasn’t your first choice in tattoos, but
your friend double-dog dared you to do it – and
you’re not about to chicken out on that challenge are you?
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How much is too much?
Here come ‘4D’ theaters
Anne Duffy
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You should know
what you’re going
for so you aren’t
wasting time and
resources.
TIFFANY CO-
Staff Writer
Are you wondering what
could possibly
top the popularity of movies in 3D? Perhaps ‘Spy Kids’ in 4D?
Movie patrons can now
experience a fourth dimension – through their noses.
“Aroma-Scope” gives viewers
the extra sense of smell while
watching their movie.
But what do people think
of it?
“4D Spy Kids is doing really good,” said Kelly Mervyn,
general manager of Rave Motion Pictures Movie Theater
in Ypsilanti. The movie has
scratch-and-sniff cards that
allow kids to be interactive
with the movie by smelling the cards during certain
scenes.
I guess the purpose of
scent cards is to enhance the
feeling of being in the movie.
I’m sure this is great for some
kids but what about those
with allergies or kids who
have nervous and sensory
integrative issues, such as
Asperger’s Syndrome or the
autistic population?
And what exactly are they
indeed smelling, a synthetic
chemical version of the real-life smell? Some things
like glue are not meant to be
smelled, catch my drift?
Taking the viewing experience to the next level is a
bad idea. There is already so
much over stimulation everywhere we go. What about relaxing and sinking into your
chair during a good flick?
On the flip side, adrenaline junkies who can’t or
won’t get up out of their seats
can enjoy a hopped-up experience with this new 4D physical stimuli because it looks
like it is here to stay.
So why 4D would take
off now when it was actually
tried a couple decades ago
and failed? Disney had these
types of 4D theaters for years
in which the viewer gets to
experience seats moving and
objects touching them.
Seems the popularity and
demand for special effects
in movies continues to grow
and people always want more.
And that, they will get.
According to The Nation,
an online Thailand news
source, a South Korean company called CJ 4DPlex has
converted more than a dozen
regular 2D and 3D cinemas
into state-of-the-art 4D theaters in South Korea and it is
continuing to do the same in
other joint ventures in China
and Mexico.
CJ Group, the independent subsidiary of CJ 4DPlex,
lists on its website that the
4D theaters contain special
motion and physical effects
to go along with the movie
storyline such as wind, mist,
fragrances and seats that
tilt and vibrate. They plan
to open 600 4D theaters in
12 major markets within the
next three years, including a
testing lab for 4D cinemas in
Los Angeles that has already
opened its doors in late summer.
What does this mean for
those of us who really just
don’t want that much involvement in our movies or
those that are sensory overloaded? Stay at home and
watch them on DVD.
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Beam of history
now EMU
memorial site
Porsha Poe
Contributor
Ten years after the
Twin Towers of the
World Trade Center were
felled by a terrorist attack,
hundreds gathered at Eastern Michigan University for
a memorial to honor
the victims. (see photo at
right).
The centerpiece of
that memorial was a steel
beam that was pulled from
the rubble in New York
City.
How did EMU get the
opportunity to display this
piece of history on campus?
Credit EMU President
Susan Martin, said Pam
Young, director of Media
Relations at the university.
According to Young,
Martin contacted the New
York City Port Authority and requested the beam.
Release of the beam to EMU
was confirmed earlier this
summer.
“A committee made up
of faculty, students and
administrators was set up
to decide on the design of
the memorial and where
it would be placed.” Young
said. The beam was placed
in Pease Park
The memorial is open to
visitors and is designed to
be touched. Although the
beam did suffer some tear
from the building collapse,
it is still one of the largest
items from the 9/11 attacks
to be donated to an organization or establishment.
The 14-foot, 6,800pound steel beam was
transported from New
York’s JFK International
Airport to Ypsilanti by Kevin Abbasse, a retired fire
marshal who now works at
EMU’s physical plant.
The beam is believed to
have come from the 74th
floor of the South Tower, according to Emily Vontom,
student communications
assistant.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
FROM FRONT PAGE
and screaming.”
Like Raquet, Tamoshunas
started out volunteering on
Habitat projects. His construction know-how led to the
staff offer.
The local Habitat for Humanity affiliate has been busy
over the past 20 years. It used
to build homes; now it usually
Habitat chapter
coming to WCC?
Bob Conradi
Staff Writer
Washtenaw
Community College students are
restoring Habitat for Humanity houses and earning
college credit. Construction Technology instructor Cristy Lindemann says
that her students log about
180 hours per semester on
three or four local Habitat
projects.
It is a win/win partnership for Habitat and the
college. The college provides labor to Habitat and
Habitat pays material costs
for student projects, saving the college money. The
students also feel a sense of
community pride.
“What’s pretty awesome
is my students can go out
and say 10 years from now
that they had something to
do with that,” says Lindemann.
Students obtain a lot
of financial help from the
community, and this provides a way for them to give
back.
Enthusiasm for the projects has been so great that
Lindemann hopes to start a
WCC student chapter that
should be open to volunteers by the winter 2012 semester.
“We’ve got the bug,” says
Lindemann.
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A rubbing of the embossed nameplate on the memorial structure at Ground Zero by Voice editor Matt Durr. This rubbing came from the memorial’s south pool.
the progress made on the site
and to see the memorial in
person.
Set in the footprints of
where the Twin Towers once
stood are two massive reflecting pools that feature
the largest man-made waterfalls in North America. The
30-foot waterfalls provide a
peaceful serenity for visitors
as they look at the names of
the more than 3,000 people
EMU received a steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center’s South tower.
remembered on the stunning
GROUND ZERO FROM FRONT PAGE
said, wiping tears from his bronze bases that surround
eyes.
the outside of the pools.
a Naval Intelligence Officer
Besch and Panik had
Many of the visitors take
working that tragic morning. known each other since they down pencil rubbings of
According to what Besch was were kids, and played sports the names engraved on the
told after the attacks at the together in high school in bronze. Audrey Montes, of
WTC, Panik was briefing his Bellefonte, Pa. Besch’s moth- Brentwood, New York was
superior officers at the Pen- er who had taught Panik in taking names for her daughtagon in an office that was high school was the one who ter who could not attend.
not his own when the plane informed him of Panik’s Montes is pleased with how
struck, killing him.
death.
the site turned out.
“He was in the wrong place
Along with his wife An“I’m happy this was left the
at the wrong time,” Besch gela, Besch was there to see way it was. This is a cemetery,”
Montes said. “People can go
to that special place and pay
their respects to the loved
ones they lost.”
The memorial not only
serves as a remembrance for
those who perished on 9/11,
but also the people who died
in the first WTC attacks in
1993. Also remembered are
some of the unborn children
who died along with their
mothers in the attacks.
People who lost family members, friends and colleagues search out the names
so that they can lay flowers
and trinkets on the names.
A museum is being built in
between the North and South
pools and is expected to be
opened in 2012. The museum
will feature many different
exhibits that show how the
events of the day unfolded, as
well as how the nation recovered.
Just behind the North
pool is One World Trade
Center. A giant American flag
hangs from the building that
is under construction. When
completed, the building will
stand as the tallest building
in the United States at a noncoincidental 1,776 feet.
Trees from within a 500mile radius of the WTC have
been transplanted to the
grounds to help provide a
peaceful setting inside the
chaos of New York City. One
of the trees, known as “the
survivor tree,” is a callery
pear tree that was rescued
from the wreckage and
nursed back to health by
Parks Department workers.
some people will be like ‘hey,
take the test, then give me a
call and let me know what’s on
it.’” said Al-Awar.
Still, other forms of cheating seem to be developing.
Students could essentially
take a picture of the exam and
send it to their friends.
“I think there has always
been a lot of cheating in
schools. The temptation to
cheat is really strong and
seemingly easier to do now
because of the technology we
have,” said Tom Zimmerman,
an English instructor and director of the Writing Center.
Zimmerman is also the editor
of The Huron River Review,
which was, itself, a victim
of plagiarism two years ago
when a student entered someone else’s photos as her own.
“And grades are a huge part
of a student’s identity and
self-esteem. So for students
at almost any level there is
a lot of pressure to get good
grades,” he added.
Many students are offended about the cheating that’s
been going on.
“I did my work and you
shouldn’t get the grade I
earned because you copied off
me,” said 19-year-old Latoya
Thomas of Ypsilanti, whose
major is health care foundations. “That’s not fair.”
According to Linda Blakey,
associate vice president of
Student Services and who also
handles cases of academic dishonesty, many instructors at
WCC are now using, https://
turnitin.com/static/index.
php, a website that checks for
plagiarism of a paper against
cutting and pasting from the
Internet.
Also, instructors are encouraged to list the consequences of academic dishonesty on the first-day syllabus,
Blakey added.
Still, even old-fashioned
ways of cheating are alive and
well at the college.
“I would never write a paper for someone,” said Rus,
who added, “but this is very
common in the general education classes.”
Rus is very good at English
and her teachers have told her
to pursue a field in writing. Because many others know that,
she has been asked by other
students if she would write
their papers, with one person
even offering to pay her.
“It comes down to if you
want to cheat there’s a way,
even in the classroom,” said
Al-Awar. “Teachers are pretty trusting with that kind of
thing, but I don’t think they
“I don’t think people are
going out of their way to cheat.
I think they think it’s mostly
like helping other people out,”
said Al-Awar.
According to WCC’s Board
of Trustees Policy Manual,
Article 4095, Student’s Rights
are completely naïve with
what goes on and to an extent,
it’s out of their control,” said
Al-Awar.
Blakey said the students
are “only hurting themselves
when they do that.”
“If a test is being graded on
a curve, they are giving the
other students an advantage
of knowing some of the information that’s on the test,” said
Blakey.
Some students seem not
to see collusion as a form of
cheating and are concerned
for their friends’ welfares.
and Responsibilities, Academic Dishonesty, “All forms
of academic dishonesty, including but not limited to collusion, fabrication, cheating
and plagiarism will call for
discipline.”
Under the Student Discipline section, when students
are accused of academic dishonesty, they have the right
to contact the associate vice
president of Student Services
to get counsel as to what their
rights are and then the case is
referred to the department’s
divisional dean. If the stu-
dents deny the charge they
can request an administrative
hearing.
“Mostly, I see plagiarism,”
said Abernethy. “If the student admits responsibility or
does not respond to the plagiarism accusation then we
can sanction the student however we want, which is usually
failing the paper or test or failing the course.
“I have had some collusion
cases, and we’ve punished
them too, but it’s not quite as
easy to prove as plagiarism,
where it’s black and white,”
added Abernethy.
For a first offense, Abernethy will usually fail the student’s paper in question and
the student will be put in a
database to be monitored for
repeat offenses. Ultimately, a
student can get expelled from
the school, but that is after a
hearing and the final decision
for disciplinary sanctions
is with the associate of vice
president of Student Services.
“We have had hearings
in the past on academic dishonesty,” said Blakey, adding
that the college has expelled
students for this type of behavior before.
restores old ones. This month
Habitat completed work on its
101st home.
Purchasing
foreclosed
houses and refurbishing them
became more economical
than new construction. But
Habitat not only revitalizes
homes; it makes them green.
The houses are insulated and
sealed with the goal of obtaining Energy Star certification.
Raquet estimates that a typical Habitat homeowner will
save $1,000 per year on energy
bills.
Habitat is a Christian charity, made famous by the participation of former President
Jimmy Carter. Nevertheless,
neither home recipients nor
volunteers need be affiliated
with a church.
The owners of the 101st
home are the Imam family.
Syed Imam, his wife and five
children are from Pakistan.
They are Muslim.
Syed immigrated because
of his son, who had Duchenne
muscular dystrophy. Syed
knew that in the US he could
find the kind of barrier-free
facilities that his disabled son
would need. He was an orthopedic surgeon in Pakistan, but
has had trouble getting certified here.
To accommodate the
wheelchair-bound son, Habitat modified the house, including a ground floor bedroom
and barrier-free bathroom
facilities.
To obtain a Habitat House,
the Imam family had to put
in many hours of sweat equity. Habitat requires all adult
members of the household to
do 300 hours of work on the
house with a cap of 900 hours
per family. One of those adult
family members was Zuneira
Imam, 21, a liberal arts macrotransfer student at WCC.
The family will also pay
an interest-free mortgage;
monthly payments will be
compatible with their income.
Volunteers for Habitat
may be individuals or part of a
group. Many companies allow
their employees to give a day
of community service each
year with full pay. This past
week, a group from Johnson
Controls was working at one
home, a group from SKF USA
at another, a group from Thri-
vent Financial for Lutherans
at a third and a group of teens
from St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at a fourth.
Volunteers do not need to
be skilled; the house leaders
will teach them. Since Habitat is now focusing on renovations and energy efficiency,
volunteers will learn skills
they can apply in their own
homes.
For those just not into
building trades, Habitat also
needs volunteers at the ReStore, 170 Aprill Drive in Ann
Arbor. The ReStore collects
and resells building materials from other construction
sites as well as furniture, rugs,
paint, kitchen appliances,
bathroom fixtures, cabinets
and the like. The store pro-
CHEATING FROM FRONT PAGE
GRAPHIC BY FRANCES ROSS THE WASNTEHAW VOICE
The 9/11 Memorial is open to the public
Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. To make
reservations visit http://911memorial.org/.
Admission is free, but the memorial does
suggest donations.
vides inexpensive materials,
reduces the amount of stuff
going to landfills and generates income.
About half of volunteers
come from faith communities,
according to Maggie Porter,
faith relations associate. The
rest are from corporations,
clubs, civic groups and other
people who care.
For those wanting to make
a difference in their community, Habitat may be a fun and
effective way to get started. It
might even lead to a job.
To learn more about volunteering
for Habitat for Humanity, visit
http://h4h.org/get-involved/. To talk to
Volunteer Coordinator Niki Pointer about
signing up, email: [email protected] or call
(734) 677-1558, ext. 108.
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BONGZ & THONGZ FROM FRONT PAGE
“We just want to try and
have some fun,” Abouna said.
“It’s something to enjoy when
you come to work.”
Despite a zoning ordinance
cited by the city of Ann Arbor to block the sales of some
of Bongz & Thongz’s adultthemed products, Hassan is
convinced that the retailer is
at home.
“The business sits very well
in the community,” Hassan
said. “We feel welcomed.”
Neighboring businesses
support the owners’ desires
for entrepreneurship on the
populous and family-friendly
Liberty Street block of shops
on the north side of downtown
Ann Arbor. Chera Tramontin,
32, manager of Kilwins Chocolates and Ice Cream Parlor, is
determined that Abouna and
Hassan should be left alone,
pointing out a consumer’s
ability to choose where they
spend.
“They have every right to be
here.” Tramontin said. “If you
don’t like it, don’t shop there.”
Tramontin, isn’t surprised
at Bongz & Thongz’s opposition. The Ann Arbor native
has always been aware of an
increase in pressure to keep
shops a certain way around
the corner of Main Street and
Liberty.
“This downtown organization has a tendency to force
places into a mold,” Tramontin said. “People just don’t like
the name. If they had chosen
‘meds and threads’ for their
name, no one would complain.”
Looking to stores in other
areas of downtown Ann Arbor
that carry similar products,
such as the Safe Sex Store on
South University and Stair-
way to Heaven on State Street,
Tramontin questions the controversy generated in a city
that has, in the past, allowed
the type inventory now barred
from Bongz & Thongz’s inventory.
“I don’t know why they
get so fussy,” Tramontin said.
“There are other places that
carry essentially the same
items.”
Under the ordinance, adult
oriented apparatuses are to
make up just 20 percent of
a store’s sales. Abouna isn’t
afraid of the effects a drastic
change in inventory will have
on business.
“They asked me to not sell
them, so I agreed,” Abouna
said. “The toys are not that
important.”
Caitlin Smith, a massage
therapist at Serendipity Salon
on South Ashley Street, believes the success of Bongz &
Bongs & Thongz occupies the space formerly used by Liberty Street Video.
FINANCIAL AID BLAME
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everyone had to decide which
program they were going to
have to declare.”
In truth, Blakey said, many
students lose their financial
aid for a whole host of reasons,
and that while these new requirements did affect some of
that population, the regulations may have not been the
primary reason.
“It could have been an issue of a student who didn’t fill
out or properly fill out a W2
form. You would lose the financial aid if you didn’t finish
that,” Blakey said. “It could
have been a case of a student
not filling out an application,
or if they are under 18 yearsold and they didn’t get parental consent.”
With that in mind, Blakey
noted, instructors are not
able to view who is on financial aid and who is not, only
the list with the names of the
students enrolled in a class.
To assume that all students
who lost their seat in a class
because of financial aid, particularly those that lost it recently, would be wrong, she
said.
Furthermore, blaming ad-
ministration for regulations
handed down by the federal
government would be completely unfair, Blakey added.
Students who lost their aid,
due to the regulations or not,
then had to “stalk” the appropriate instructor to request
an override to allow them
back into the class, which
Hurns said was needlessly
time-consuming.
“I still have some students
trying to get in, and sadly, they
can’t,” she said, explaining
that the semester has been in
session for nearly four weeks.
“They’ll have no way of knowing what is going on.”
Aside from administration,
Hurns also expressed concern
that because her department
and others, like the math and
sciences, do not have a divisional counselor assigned to
their office, students have
been ill-advised in terms of
deciding which courses they
needed to take and those that
they did not in order to transfer or graduate.
“We haven’t had a divisional counselor for about
three or four years,” Hurns
said. “If they get bad advice
from counseling, they have to
counsel themselves. Some of
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us have gone as far to counsel
students on their course decisions ourselves.”
Business and marketing
instructor Maurice Stovall
said he has had the same experience.
For Stovall, the blame was
not so much on counseling,
but on the lack of engagement
from the rest of the faculty to
help guide their students.
“I ended up going down to
the counseling office myself
and personally met with them
so I could get to know them
and the course selection myself,” Stovall said. “We have
a few faculty members that
have done that campus-wide,
but I really feel that the faculty was detached from helping
students.
“The faculty would say just
go see counseling. Then students would tell me, ‘I signed
up for this class because they
said I needed it, and I really
didn’t need it at all.’”
Both Martha Showalter,
dean of Math Natural and
Behavioral Sciences, and
Rosemary Wilson, dean of
Business and Computer Technology, declined to comment.
But even Counseling Services, a regular lightning rod
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for complaints and disparagement, shouldn’t shoulder the
blame for a student’s inability to understand their course
track, according to Patricia
Taylor, dean of the department.
“Yes some errors have
been made,” said Taylor. “Our
counselors have made errors,
and I have made errors. They
are not intentional and when
they have been made, we feel
horrible about it.
“But when I unravel whether there has been an error on
our part or not, it all comes
down to communication, listening and understanding.”
For students who don’t un-
Radiography students
take home trophy again
Anne Duffy
Staff Writer
David Yoakam took first
place in individual honors and
led Washtenaw Community
College to its second straight
best overall finish in this year’s
radiography competition in
Bay City.
Yaokim was one of two
WCC students to win awards.
More than 60 students
representing eight Michigan
schools participated, including seven students from WCC.
The competition was sponsored by the Michigan Society
of Radiologic Technologists
during the three-day conference, Sept. 16-18.
“It feels good. We rehearsed
a lot for this,” said Yoakam.
“William Nelson, our main adviser, had special sessions (to
study) throughout the summer and into September.”
Chris Koch, 26, from New
Boston, took third place.
a wide range of topics from
patient care to anatomy and
helps the students prepare
for their American Registry of
Radiologic Technologists national certification exam the
following year.
“The entire department deserves recognition and the trophy went to our entire class as
a whole. We all worked together and studied together for the
past year and half,” said Yoakam, adding that radiography
program chair Connie Foster
should have recognition also.
There were nine rounds in
the competition. WCC had five
students among the competition’s top 10, and two in the final four.
“To win that (trophy) two
years in a row is not easy,” said
radiography instructor William Nelson. “It’s a difficult
thing to do and we are proud of
that fact. We get to keep it for a
year and now it’s nice that the
OE building is done. We will be
Chris Koch (left) and David Yoakam (right) were recipients of radiography awards.
The trophy is given to the able to display it here.
school that performs best
“These students work hard
overall and WCC’s graduating in the program. Between acaclass of 2012 took the trophy demics, going to clinicals eight
home again for the second hours a day and having a famstraight year.
ily life, for them to take extra
“It was pretty cool to be time to prepare for this really
in the top three when it was shows their dedication to the
all said and done,” said Koch, their career choice.”
adding, “I feel proud about it
But Yoakam knows there’s
because there was quite a few no time to celebrate, just yet.
students that were entered in
“I won’t be able to rest until
the Student Bee. It shows how I actually take the real regiswell our teachers teach us.”
try exam next summer,” said
The competition covers Yoakam.
derstand exactly what courses to take, Taylor said that all
of WCC’s counselors will run
an audit of a student’s course
load to see what classes they
have taken and which classes
they should take next.
In these situations, she
said, counseling will take
the time to make sure that
the class chosen is not only
a proper fit for the student
but whether it is required for
a graduation or a transfer. A
student can also run the audit
themselves on the college’s
website.
Taylor refuted the charge
that there is not a designated
counselor for the business
and marketing department.
Sandro Tuccinardi counsels
those students, even though
he does not carry the title of
divisional counselor.
And while many instructors have expressed discontent with the current
situation, Bonnie Tew, a communications instructor, places the blame elsewhere.
“I think it’s all due to decisions made outside the institution,” Tew said. “It’s the
government and the decisions
they have made. They have
made financial aid restricting
by making people decide what
they are going to be so early in
their college careers.”
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“They’ve created a demand,
and they should be able to
provide it,” Smith said. “I’m
surprised someone hasn’t
combined those themes before.”
The concepts blended at
Bongz & Thongz leave Smith
wondering if locals have been
overly critical of the retailer
and boutique.
“People shop at McDonald’s all the time and you don’t
judge them.” Smith said.
As Bongz & Thongz solidifies itself among the numerous shopping attractions in
downtown Ann Arbor, Aviva
Woodward, a hostess at the
Fleetwood Diner on Ashley
Street, one of Ann Arbor’s longest running late night eateries sees no problems. Claiming that Bongz & Thongz’s
neighbors are not at liberty
to question the nature of its
business model, Woodward is
unaffected.
“We’re not the morality
police,” Woodward said. “We
just serve hash browns. I don’t
care about bongs or thongs.”
Left alone for the time being, Abouna and Hassan are
hopeful that sales will continue to increase despite intervention from their government. Hassan is curious about
the threat his store has been
accused of creating.
“Do they really think it will
ruin Ann Arbor?” Hassan said.
“We’re not bringing hookers and drug dealers into
town,” Abouna said.
“Business has been well
and is increasing, it’s good
to see that in a time of crisis,”
Hassan said.
Adamant that Hassan
and Abouna are within their
right as citizens of the United
States, Tramontin points to
the nature of this country as
defense for Bongz & Thongz
and is confident in the new
entrepreneurs’ potential for
success.
“This is America last time
I checked,” Tramontin said.
“They’ve gotten so much hype.
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September 26, 2011
A7
Welcome Day – full of fun, energy and interaction
Staff Writer
For people like Angela Cheech, Welcome Day
means much more than
meeting new people or getting free things from vendors. The Washtenaw Community College alum isn’t
taking classes any more, but
she still devotes time and energy to the Arts Club.
“Definitely,
Welcome
Day is the main way we
get new members,” said
Cheech, 28, of Ypsilanti.
“We’re the most active club
on campus.”
Welcome Day was held on
Sept. 13 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
and attracted hundreds. The
field between the Gunder
Myran building and the Business Education building was
filled with bustling students,
animated club members
and vendors from places
like Jimmy John’s, Noodles
& Company and banks from
around the area.
Orchard Radio was playing music and describing the
action, and Student Activities arranged to have a powered candy dispenser and a
photo booth.
Many of the clubs had
members hurriedly giving
out information and treats
to inquiring students interested in getting involved.
“It was great. Our new
president came and seemed
to have a great time meeting and interacting with students,” said Rachel Barsch,
Student Activities events coordinator. “I always feel this
energy in the air at Welcome
Day.”
Even the clubs were getting to know each other. For
Dance 4 Unity, meeting people from the Arts Club meant
more opportunities to offer
events tailored toward members of both clubs.
“We’ve gained a lot of exposure,” said Angela Weichel,
21, from Dance 4 Unity.
“Now we have so much interest, even in collaboration.
Arts Club leaders want to do
something together.”
Of course, some students
preferred the other offerings of Welcome Day, such
as sandwiches from Jimmy
John’s, waxed hands and airbrush tattoos.
“The highlight of my day
was my tattoo,” said Matt
Tripp, 21, a construction
management student from
Ann Arbor. “The food was
good, too.”
Other clubs really need
this day to let students
know what they do and who
Andres Artilles, 20, (left) is a mechanical engineering major and member of the WCC International Student Association. Right, students enjoy dancing as part of the Welcome Day festivities that drew hundreds of students to the Sept. 13 event.
they are. Sometimes the
Gaming Club loses students
throughout the year, and
Welcome Day gives the club
opportunities to get some of
them back.
“It helps with our popularity,” said Dane Musser, 22,
a computer security and occupational studies student
from Canton. “Welcome
Day lets people know we’re
on campus.”
For the InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship, Wel-
come Day offered an opportunity to get know
people across a religious
spectrum.
“This is a really good
place to meet people,” said
Todd Jerdon, campus staff
member from Belleville.
“We’re an inter-denominational Christian group; we’ve
had good, honest discussions.”
Overall, 20 clubs were in
attendance at Welcome Day,
and eight of them were new.
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Play ball! Athletic fields finally online
Anna Fuqua-Smith
Staff Writer
Washtenaw Community
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even though there was the
possibility of a “Phase Two”
to the project: adding lights
to the softball and baseball
diamonds along with a 9-hole
disk golf course.
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additional work is not imminent.
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haven’t seen the demand to
play games at night,” Flowers
said.
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WCC ATHLETIC
FIELDS TIMELINE
Spring 2006: Old athletic fields are torn
down to make space for
the Health and Fitness
Center.
April 2008: Plans are
drafted to build fields
and are projected to be
finished within a year,
but work didn’t begin
until 2009.
Spring/Summer 2009:
Field construction begins
and plans are made to
make the fields playable
for Fall 2009 but that
never occurred.
Spring 2010: The sod
hasn’t matured as
planned. The unplayable
grounds delay the opening of the fields again.
Spring 2011: Some of
the fields get limited use
while sod matures.
JOSH CHAMBERLAIN MAP DESIGN
FIELDS CONTINUED B2
Sept. 28 2011: The fields
officially open.
When fishing is about
so much more than the fish
Story and Photos by
Bob Conradi
Staff Writer
It’s not yet 6 a.m. on a Saturday
morning and we are heading out of the
harbor at Frankfort. Orion and the Pleiades are twinkling in the still-black
sky. What strange subculture ventures
forth so early? We were trolling for
Lake Michigan salmon.
Recall the Norman Rockwell paintings. Fishing once evoked bucolic
scenes of boys lounging by a small lake
A trolling rod and reel pull an artificial bait
behind the boat.
with a pole, a bobber and a worm on a
hook. Not this. This is more like hightech warfare.
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equipped with a Magellan GPS, a Raytheon Fish Finder sonar, a ThermoTroll 800 Fish Hawk Computer, four
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and reels like you might see on a Marlin
boat, and of course, the radio.
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have their own vocabulary.
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fly along the scum-line.”
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FISHING CONTINUED B3
B2
Culture Sync
September 26, 2011
The Washtenaw Voice
Kids, parents get WCC instructor showcases
a head start at
inspiring art at Detroit gallery
Children’s Center
Anna Fuqua-Smith
Staff Writer
Children eat lunch in the Children’s Center.
Allie Tomason
Staff Writer
Being a parent is a fulltime job, and that doesn’t
encompass everything else
that life has to offer. Running
a household, trying to make a
living and trying to raise productive members of society
can make a parent’s life hectic
and full.
The Children’s Center,
here on campus, helps to take
a load off.
“It makes it more convenient for parents to go to
school,” said Marcus Icilien,
29, a Computer Networking
major from Ypsilanti. “This
is my first semester trying the
program.”
Icilien had a sitter lined up
for his son before the semester started, and then he found
out about the Center.
At the start of each new semester, enrollment ensues on
a first-come, first-served basis
and according to Trudi Hagen, director of the Children’s
Center,
“There is always a waiting
list. This past Spring/Summer
semester there were some
openings, but that’s the first
time in eight years I’ve seen
that…fall and winter are always full.”
The Center has approximately 80 openings for children, but all of those are not
exclusive to students, according to Hagen.
“Technically, per Board
policy, this is a student service. However, we have about
10 slots, per semester, reserved for staff,” said Hagen.
“It is convenient for faculty in
a situation when childcare is
needed at the last minute.”
Financial Aid is even lend-
ing a helping hand as an added
convenience. Beginning this
semester, parents were able to
authorize childcare payment
to be directly deducted from
their student accounts for
care provided on campus.
“It’s an effort to make
the transaction more convenient,” said Karrie McCrory,
financial aid coordinator.
In addition to convenience,
some students feel monetary
value also holds merit.
“It’s very inexpensive,”
said Joe Cohoon, 30, also a
Computer Networking major.
“It’s only $3 an hour.”
For the staff members who
use the Center, the cost is $4.
And like some other programs here at WCC such as
Orchard Radio, Garrett’s and
The Sweet Spot, the Center
provides a real-life learning
environment and experience
for students in their respective programs.
“I have about 4-5 practicum students,” said Hagen.
As conducive to the needs
of students and staff as it is,
the Center also operates within the confines of a five-day
week. Open Monday through
Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., childcare is not available
to those who attend night and
weekend classes.
But that doesn’t discount
the Center as a valued asset
to the college. Some convenience is better than none.
And apparently, at least, one
parent has a longing for extended hours.
“I appreciate it,” said Cohoon, who has been using the
center for three semesters.
“But I wish they were open
later for night classes.”
Matt Zacharias is no stranger to reinterpreting existing
imagery into his own style –
and forcing viewers to question
their assumptions in the world
around them.
“Bolth” was a chance to
showcase his art at a one-night
event held on Sept 9. The wellattended evening was a chance
to prepare Zacharias, a digital
media arts instructor at Washtenaw Community College, for
his solo debut in June. The reception was at Re: View Contemporary Gallery in Detroit
and attracted more than 100
patrons – with several pieces
selling by the end of the evening.
One of the more prominent
pieces entitled “Flipbook 1-48”
had an asking price of $25,000.
Zacharias describes it as a sort
of channel surf through life.
“Think about chapters, sections, flashes, and pictures.
That’s the effect I wanted to
have on the viewer,” Zacharias
said. “The only way to do that
is to genuinely look into my
own past and construct it from
memories and fragments.”
Although “Flipbook 1-48”
was originally to be a 100-piece
collection, Zacharias hopes
to inspire viewers to generate
their own interactive piece.
“On one hand, it’s highly
personal, but I hope viewers
will zero in on specific aspects
and find a way to relate it to
themselves,” he said.
For Dennis Hayes IV, 34, of
Ferndale, this wasn’t the first
time checking out Zacharias’s
work.
“I like how straight to the
point his (Zacharias) pieces
are,” Hayes said. “I’ve already
gotten a lot of background behind the pieces so it speaks to
me on a little more of a deeper
level.”
Hayes also noted the development in Zacharias’s art.
“I’ve seen a lot of work from
the art collective AWOL and it
was nice to see completely different pieces in this gallery,”
Hayes said. “Zacharias brought
more depth, personality, and
inspired emotions from these
pieces.”
Another one of the pieces
A corner of one of WCC instructor Matt Zacharias’ pieces at his recent art show in Detroit.
that generated a lot of attention and discussion was “Social
Value 1-3.”
The photographs used were
found pieces and appropriated
by Zacharias by adding captions
and framing and were taken between the years of 1978-81.
“Those photos completely
threw me back into my middle
school experience. I found
them to be humorous but also
very sad at the same time,”
Zacharias said.
Managing Editor
Billy Wilson, president
of the Motown Alumni Association, lives his life by the
simple philosophy that you
don’t need to be somebody to
be somebody.
With the Michigan Music
Hall and Walk of Fame, that
philosophy shines through
for local bands looking to rub
elbows with some of music’s
biggest, Michigan-bred stars.
Earlier this year, Wilson
was approached by MMHOFWOF co-founder Kevin Hill, a
former member of Ypsilanti’s
Downtown
Development
Authority, to help lay the
groundwork for a music museum specifically tailored for
the homegrown entertainers.
Tentatively planned to
span the downtown block of
Michigan Avenue and Washington Street in downtown
Ypsilanti, the hall will feature
exhibits built for big name
artists like Eminem, Kid Rock
or Jackie Wilson – to name a
few – and will offer exposure
for regional musicians as well.
The goal for Hill and Wilson is to give recognition to
the myriad of entertainers
that have shaped the various
scenes in Michigan, and in
Ypsilanti. The hall will be centrally located between Wayne
and Washtenaw Counties.
“It will feature things like
costumes and records,” Wilson said, envisioning the museum’s layout. “Each artist
will have their own display
For more information on Re:View Contemporary Art Gallery, visit http://reviewcontemporary.com/index.html
Zacharias’ work “Flipbook 1-48” sold for $25,000.
Michigan Music Hall of Fame to come to Ypsilanti?
Ben Solis
Jennifer Pond, 35, of Port
Huron has never seen Zacharias’s work but thinks the pieces
are amusing.
“I only saw a small picture of
the pieces before I came today
but being here brings the depth
to life. The pieces are also quite
hysterical,” Pond said.
that will explain their history.”
While the MMHOF is still
in its formative phases, Wilson said that the economic
impact of the MMHOF-WOF
could be massive.
“We’ll have large ceremonies to induct people and
hopefully hold free concerts if
we can get the artists to do it,”
Wilson said. “We also want
to have a lot of involvement
from the commercial community.”
But how do members of
the city’s development authority feel about the project
and can Wilson and Hill garner the community support
they need to move forward?
In terms of money, the
duo will need more than just
support to get the hall off the
ground.
“We had talked about, we
had a figure of a million dollars,” Hill said. “We can get
started for less than that.
About $350,000-$500,000.”
Acquiring that money will
not be easy, but both Hill and
Wilson have been looking at
their resources and have been
doing their due diligence.
“We’ve been working from
the bottom up,” Hill said, explaining his grassroots approach to fundraising. “I’ve
been using University of
Michigan’s database of all the
organizations that expend
money to try and get donors.”
For those that have signed
on as early supporters, the response has been positive.
Take for example, Dave
Heikkinen, chairman of the
Downtown Association of Ypsilanti and owner of Heikk’s
Decorated Apparel Studio.
Having worked with Hill
for nearly two years on other
Ypsilanti projects, Heikkinen said that something as
diverse and refreshing as the
MMHOF-WOF would be ideally suited for the city.
“Anytime you get talented
people who come to Ypsilanti,
especially the kind of people
that are being recognized for
early phases, as Hill and Wilson have yet to garner the financial support.
Future donors and supporters, however, will have
bought into a special piece
of Michigan history, Wilson
said.
“We want this hall of fame
to be technologically advanced,” Wilson said. “The
one in Cleveland is nice. But
no one will have the technology we’re planning on using.”
The technology Wilson
“We want this hall of fame to be
technologically advanced, the one
in Cleveland is nice. But no one
will have the technology we’re
planning on using.”
~ Billie Wilson
their accomplishments, that’s
going to be great for our community,” Heikkinen said.
For Heikkinen, the diverse
nature of the artists that
would be inducted, both ethnically and musically, shows
off the diverse nature of the
city itself.
“It goes well with Ypsilanti, being a college town
and a middle-class town that
has fed all the industries that
we have helped throughout
the years,” Heikkinen said. “I
think it will be fantastic.”
Yet support like that of
members of the DAY association may be needed in the
referred to is the 3D stereoscopic imaging, developed by
Wayne State University researcher Jim Fischbach, that
will adorn each artist’s exhibit, as well as the hall’s interactive database that will catalog
the history of every Michigan
musician and entertainer.
Because of Wilson’s roots,
the database is the most important part.
Born and raised in Willow
Run, the long-time musician
has had personal and professional interactions with a vast
array of major recording artists.
He grew up on the same
street as the late Motown
songwriter Nick Ashford. He
has played in separate bands
with former Temptations
lead-vocalist David Ruffin
and singer Martha Reeves
throughout most of the 1980s.
He once packed up everything he owned, headed to
New York City for an audition
and got it without playing a
note. He sold himself with a
line about the musical prowess and good looks he possessed that the other musicians auditioning lacked.
Wilson, a strict rhythmand-blues man, even accidentally sat in with jazz greats
Thelonious Monk, Benny
Goodman and Buddy Rich –
at the same time – when their
bassist didn’t show up to a
small club gig he had wrapped
up in New Orleans.
And as the president of
the MAA, a large networking
website for Motown artists
and fans alike, he has a high
standing with many of the
classic label’s fans and stars.
This status alone would make
him a prime candidate to be
among the first inductees.
But Wilson remains vigilantly modest in his assertion
that he’s just an average Joe
from Ypsilanti. This museum,
he said, is not about him and
more so about what he can
give back to the community
that shaped him.
For Wilson, it all comes
down to the philosophy that
guides his life: that anybody
can be somebody. You just
have to tell them who you are.
FIELDS FROM B1
dollars in the process.”
There are bio-swells, detention ponds and retention
ponds for water run off surrounding the field
“Ann Arbor Township has
very explicit ordinances on
everything especially concerning water run off,” Flowers said.
Whether or not lights are
added to the facility will be
determined by the college’s
Board of Trustees, though
Flowers said it could be awhile
before that happens.
“Until we get it on a threeto five-year plan, it’s not going
to happen just yet,” he said.
For now, Erica Lemm,
Club Sports coordinator,
thinks that lights on the soccer field would be profitable,
as well.
“The soccer field is constantly being used for one
thing or another,” she said.
“It’s the field that outside
teams want to rent out all of
the time.”
Lemm confirmed that
through the Ann Arbor Rec
and Ed League, baseball can’t
play some of their games at
night and have to rent other
fields outside of the college to
play.
Meanwhile, Downey said,
WCC has gotten great feedback on the fields from outside groups since they’ve been
open.
And Lemm said WCC athletes are thrilled at the chance
to put the facilities to good
use.
“I’m excited to get the
teams out there and get 100
percent use out of them in any
way we can,” Lemm said.
Culture Sync
The Washtenaw Voice
September 26, 2011
B3
Short on cash? Coupons can make dollars go a long way
Jael Gardiner
Staff Writer
Harrison Hammons isn’t
an extreme coupon collector
who saves thousands of dollars at every trip to the grocery store. But he’s beginning
to see the possibilities.
“I’ve used coupons for
food and sometimes I use
them to get discounts on
clothes,” said Hammons, 19,
a healthcare major from Inkster. “Sometimes I get them
from the internet, and I sign
up for e-mail lists for places
like fast food restaurants and
Aeropostale.”
Extreme couponing guru
Tamra Irish, from the website
Discount Queens, says that
students can take advantage
of easier ways to save money
on a variety of items.
But is it really possible for
people to get $1,000 worth of
groceries for $10? Amazing
savings are possible – if you’re
willing to put in the time. The
people on the show “Extreme
Couponing” often spend dozens of hours clipping and organizing coupons every week.
And Irish has discovered ways
to cut time finding coupons.
“As a student, using printable coupons as found on
Coupons.com is the easiest
and most convenient way to
save money at the store. Coupon blogs, such as Discount
Queens do all the work for
you!” Irish said. “Only shop
clothing or shoe retail stores
with a coupon and shop during off seasons. I never shop a
retail store without a discount
code or printable coupons.”
Those folks on “Extreme
Couponing” seem like army
generals, carefully planning
out every detail of their shopping trips. They carefully
watch everything that they
buy and keep a running total,
in addition to keeping a detailed binder with their entire
shopping trip planned.
While not everybody has
the patience or extra time to
get everything in their cart
for free, many people can cut
back on the amount that they
spend on groceries, as well
as other items, every month.
There are a few things that
beginners can try to get started couponing.
To get started, shoppers
don’t even need to buy a
newspaper subscription, although it can help because
newspapers traditionally are
one of the best sources for
savings coupons. The Internet is another great source.
There are a lot of people who
keep blogs who showcase the
major sales and most popular coupons. They often keep
track of sales that take place
online, and have advice about
when and where to use them.
“Walmart will price match
each item found in the ad and
allow a manufacturer coupon
to be used on top of the price
match. You can do this while
shopping for school supplies
as well as groceries,” Irish said.
There are also forums
where avid couponers get together and share information.
It can really save time having
other people finding the coupons. Many of these people
also keep track of when items
are going on sale. Sometimes,
these people watch store circulars and take note of the
time during the year that
items frequently go on sale.
There are also websites
more expensive, depending
on what they’re for.
People who want to wait
for a sale can print these coupons and stock up on items
that they use regularly. Strategically using these coupons
is the best way to get the lowest overall price on each item,
so watch store circulars.
“You save a lot of money
when you’re short on cash.
When I signed up at Ann Arbor (annarbor.com’s print
version) I got some manufac-
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A receipt shows the power of clipping coupons.
that sell coupons. They don’t
cost too much, and using a
coupon- clipping service is an
easy way to save money and
time. These coupons generally cost between 5 and 50
cents each. Some of them are
turer’s coupons that I can use
all over the place,” said Muniro Dini, 16, a liberal arts student from Ann Arbor. “But, if
you don’t need something you
can try to wait for it to go on sale
to save more money.”
U-M’s Big House
home to five years of
Big Hearts charity
Ben Solis
Managing Editor
When Ann Arbor lawyer
and running enthusiast Mike
Highfield’s colleague Phil
Bowen was diagnosed with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS), Highfield knew that his
dream of running down the
tunnel of University of Michigan’s football stadium and
onto the field’s 50 yard line
would become a reality – one
backed with a just cause.
Half a decade later, after
Bowen’s subsequent death
weeks before the first event,
the race Highfield and his wife
Andrea created lives on with
“The Big House Big Heart,”
an annual 5k-10k race that
begins at the north end of the
U-M Stadium, known affectionately to Ann-Arborites
as the “Big House,” and ends
back on the field’s 50 yard line.
The goal of BHBH is to raise
awareness and donations for
children and adults suffering
from serious neurological and
cardiovascular disorders, according to Will Smith, director of operations for BHBH.
The race will be held on
Oc.t 9 and requires participants to pay a basic entrance
fee, which changes between
registration dates. Once registered, participants can raise
funds in two ways, Smith
said. The first is through the
company owned by the Highfield’s, Champions for Charity, which donates a portion of
a runner’s entry fee to different medical organizations and
hospitals that research and
treat people and their disorders. These include the U-M
Program for Neurology Research and Discover, the U-M
Cardiovascular Center and to
the C.S. Mott Children’s and
Woman’s Hospital.
The second mode of fundraising is more personal,
and allows family members,
friends and loved ones to create teams in honor of those
diagnosed. Any money raised
through the individual teams
will go to the charity of the
team’s choice.
For Washtenaw Community College student Jeni
Green, 25, the race is personal.
Green’s 2 year-old cousin,
Kaiden Tabbert, was diagnosed with three separate
congenital heart defects while
he was still inside the womb.
These include an enlarged Tetralogy of Fallot, which causes
a hole in the ventricle and a
displaced aorta, pulmonary
atresia which prevents the
pulmonary valve from forming and patent foramen ovale
(PFO), a defect that prevents
the septum wall to form completely, she said.
With the odds stacked
against the boy since birth,
Green, a pre-natal nursing
student, noted that her cousin
was one of the more fortunate
infants born with these defects.
“Kaiden’s family was very
lucky because the ultrasound
showed the defects in the
womb,” Green said. “Most
parents don’t catch it that early, and that is why congenital
heart defects are a No. 1 killer
of infants.”
Team Kaiden, outfitted
with 10 participants, used
BHBH as a fundraising mechanism last year, and were
able to raise $1,100. This year,
Green’s family team has an
additional five more runners
and hopes to raise more money than the last round.
“There is no real preventative measure to catch things
like this other than catching it very early,” Green said.
“That’s why we do walks like
this, to help research into
congenital heart defects.”
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The Big House Big Heart walk,
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Students who don’t have
the time to spend clipping
coupons can take advantage
of store loyalty cards. Many of
these cards offer coupons that
can be loaded to the card online. The Kroger Plus Card offers coupons and points that
can be used to save money
on fuel. There are also digital
coupons that can be printed
from the websites.
CVS Pharmacy has recently put coupon centers
into their store that allows
customers to scan their CVS
cards and receive coupons instantly. There are frequently
coupons for free items around
the store, such as such as candy bars and bandages. There
are also store rewards called
Extra Bucks, money that can
be spent around the store.
Target is one of the first
retailers to offer coupons that
can be obtained with a smart
phone app. The Target Mobile
app is available for Android,
iPhone and iPad. Customers can also sign up with text
alerts that will text coupons
and deals to many mobile devices. Target also has a lot of coupons that can be printed online.
Another way to save is to
take note of the coupon policies of stores. There are some
stores that will allow coupon
stacking, which is when a
store coupon and a manufacturer’s coupon are used for
the same item. Other stores
will double the value of coupons. Often this only happens
on certain days, and sometimes only coupons worth
less than fifty cents will be
doubled. A lot of stores, like
Kroger, also print Catalina
Coupons, which are coupons
that are printed at the end of a
receipt.
There are a lot of places to
look for coupons, including
on product packaging and in
junk mail. Signing up for the
email lists of restaurants and
other stores is a great way to
get coupons for free things
as well. Manufacturer’s often
have coupons on their websites as well.
When it comes to saving
money, Irish reminds students that budgeting is important. Being responsible
with money is more important than couponing.
“As a college student this
was my downfall! A few dinners out and I was out of
money halfway through the
month,” Irish said. “I would
suggest allowing yourself a
set amount of money and
keeping that set amount in
cash. Divide that cash into
envelopes. This method can
help students maintain accountability and maybe even
save a few dollars.
Fishing for dollars:
Great Lakes,
great experiment
Bob Conradi
Staff Writer
Dodge loads a nice salmon into the ice box.
FISHING FROM B1
is intended to look like a baitfish.
The names of the lures
are as colorful as the objects
themselves. Patterns have
names like “Fat Nancy,” “Dr.
Death / Kevorkian,” “Wonder Bread,” and “Monkey
Puke.” Brand names include
“Northport Nailer,” “Stinger”
and “Moonshine.” A really big
spoon is a “Magnum.”
“We’ve got a release!” says
Bill.
One of the trolling rods is
throbbing in a new way as a
fish thrashes on the end of the
line. Lincoln McGhee of Troy
grabs the rod and begins to
reel it in.
The boat is moving about
2.5 miles per hour. Stopping
it to fight the fish would result
in a massive tangle of lines so
we press on. Lincoln is fighting the motion of the fish and
the boat at the same time. The
drag of the reel sings.
Finally the fish is brought
to the boat and netted. It is a
bright shining 10-pound Coho
salmon. It is an exhilarating
experience.
A similar scene was repeated about 10 times during
the weekend trip. The largest
fish was a 15-pound Chinook,
a big fish to be sure, but they
can get much bigger.
We took the fish to the
public cleaning shack where
a professional offered to save
us the work for $2 a fish. Jay,
a semi-toothless Southerner,
was a joy to watch, advancing
fish cleaning to a kind of performance art in which there
was no wasted motion.
We burned a lot of gas and
spent a lot of money. We went
home with thirty pounds of
salmon fillets. Even when the
value of truck, boat and fishing equipment are depreciated to zero, the fish cost us
about $23 per pound.
If the trip was only about
putting food on the table, success was limited. But that’s
not why fishermen spend the
money and energy.
Lake Michigan was beautiful. Waves rocked the boat.
Cool breezes caressed our
faces. Wisps of fog made patterns against the sand dunes.
The rising and setting sun
sparkled on the water. And we
had the adrenalin rush of battling big fish.
The price of gasoline, lodging and additional expenses -$685. The experience of male
camaraderie in the North
Country – priceless.
Sport fishing in the Great
Lakes generates $4.5 billion
annually, state officials say.
Much of that money is spent
in Michigan.
While this year has been
especially good for salmon,
trouble is brewing, according
to Jay Wesley, acting director
of the Department of Natural
Resource’s Michigan Basin
Coordinator.
“There are so many exotic species that are changing the game,” Wesley said.
These non-native species
have been introduced into
the Great Lakes from other
countries often in the ballast
water of international ships.
Among the most notorious are zebra and quagga
mussels. These are filter
feeders, straining small organisms from the water.
Their appetite for these organisms upsets the balance
of the food web.
People like to eat salmon;
salmon eat prey fish such as
alewives, which in turn eat
zooplankton and macro-invertebrates, which eat algae,
which get energy from the
sun.
One important organism in this chain of life is diporeia, a tiny, once-common
shrimp-like creature that is
now becoming scarce in the
Great Lakes. It has a high fat
content, providing valuable
nutrition for prey fish. It may
be a victim of the mussels.
In 2003, alewife numbers crashed in Lake Huron,
which in turn reduced salmon size and numbers. This
crash was partly caused by
disappearing diporeia.
This crash was also a
consequence of too many
salmon, according to Chuck
Madenjian, a researcher with
the US Geological Survey
Great Lakes Science Center
in Ann Arbor. Alewives make
up as much as 95 percent
of the salmon diet. Salmon,
which were being stocked in
the lakes, were beginning to
reproduce naturally, swelling their numbers.
The Great Lakes fishery is
one big experiment. The reason there are salmon there
at all is because they were
introduced in 1965 to control
the alewives, said Madenjian.
The alewives were not native
either, but swam up the St.
Lawrence Seaway.
Many true native fish
such as lake trout, chubs and
whitefish continue to struggle in competition with their
exotic brothers.
Meanwhile, exotic species continue to advance. Recent invaders include spiny
water fleas, gobies and the
ruffe. Time will tell how it
will all come out.
In the meantime, billions
of dollars are at stake.
Dodge maneuvers his boat in the harbor at Frankfort.
B4
Sports
September 26, 2011
Game Day unites fans – one grill at a time
Adrian Hedden
Staff Writer
Before the University of
Michigan’s Wolverines took
the field against Eastern
Michigan University at the Big
House on Sept. 17, thousands of
followers surged into the surrounding neighborhood. With
hatch-backs agape, fans began
to devour hotdogs and drink in
the glory while hungrily enjoying the social explosion that is
game day in Ann Arbor.
“It’s alive,” said Joe Saad,
29, of Dearborn. “The people
here are crazy. Everyone is so
friendly.”
Having tailgated U-M
games for the past four years,
Saad is drawn to the festivities
by three things: delicious food,
cold beer and the company of
his best friends. Surrounded
by his buddies, brews in hand,
Saad eagerly grills shish kabobs on a charcoal grill as he
reflects on the fan friendly feel
of Ann Arbor on this exciting
day.
“It’s about the drinkin’,
the barbeque and the people,”
Saad said. “We all have such a
good time. It’s very safe.”
For Stacy Tilbury, 45, from
Kalamazoo, the party is the
passion. Entering her 10th
year as a tailgater, Tilbury cites
the fun-loving consumption
of various comfort foods and
drinks as the main draw.
“Tailgating isn’t about being healthy,” Tilbury said. “I
come here for the company
and the drinks, it’s a great
time!”
An avid fan of college football, Tilbury perceives an appeal to the game that doesn’t
seem to carry into the pros.
“Pro football sucks,” Tilbury said. “I definitely prefer
Contributor
Once upon a time, dedicated football fans decided
that just because you’re not
home doesn’t mean you can’t
barbecue.
So they began cooking out
of the backs of their vehicles,
creating a wonderful tradition we refer to as tailgating.
Many delicious feasts have been
cooked outside of football stadiums and other sporting events.
But sometimes bad things
Staff Writer
A completely revamped Club Sports program is under way,
with several sports competing in local rec leagues this Fall.
Several part-time coaches have been hired, more will be
aboard soon, and some sports, like cross-country, will be led by
students, said Erica Lemm, Club Sports coordinator.
Among the new coaches:
ASHLEY PENNY, WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
ADRIAN HEDDEN THE WASHTENAW VOICE
University of Michigan fans gather to tailgate before a recent game against Eastern Michigan.
the pomp and circumstance of
college sports.”
The biggest fans of the football team ravenously pack the
fields in front of Pioneer High
School, paying $40 to park
their cars and $200 for campers on the grass. Randy Warner, 52 from Battle Creek, a father and veteran U-M tailgater
finds some of his more eccentric fellow fans to be entertainment enough as kick-off is anxiously awaited.
“I just love to come out here
and watch the die-hards set
up,” Warner said. “We try to
keep a pretty relaxed spread,
but I’ve seen people over
there set up satellites so their
kids can play videogames on
40-inch-screen TVs! To me it’s
all about the bonding, but we
really enjoy the people watching.”
Attending the pre-game
can happen when we stray too
far from our kitchens, and the
government, in a USDA press
release, raises concerns about
food safety at tailgate parties
and warns fans to take precautions.
“This year, we’re urging
fans to follow the food safety
play book at the tailgate parties they host,” said Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under
Secretary for Food Safety.
The press release uses
names of football penalties as
food safety hazards such as:
NATHAN CLARK THE WASHTENAW VOICE
Sam Basha, 28, fan from Dearborn Heights, checks to see if his shish kabobs are done
cooking.
merrymaking with his children, Warner hopes that the
joy he feels will continue to be
passed down from generation
to generation of Wolverine
fans. Warner’s youngest son
Zack has recently enjoyed his
first taste of maize-and-blue
fanaticism and is well on his
way to pursuing it like his father before him.
For some fans of U-M
football, eating, drinking, and
laughing is simply not enough.
Rick Knight, 60, and Paul
Hecht, 66, of West Bloomfield
are those kinds of fans. Having hand-painted a full-sized
Winnebago with Michigan’s
colors, featuring a mural altered ever year to reflect upcoming matches as the “road
to victory,” Knight and Hecht
are devoted to the spectacle of
U-M football. Outfitting his RV
with a shower-mounted keg-
tap and basking in the beauty
of his passion, Knight doesn’t
even care how the game ends.
“Winning isn’t everything,”
Knight said. “And here, it’s not
a problem.”
Ever the competitor, however, Knight intends to take
his RV design a step further,
emblazoning it with a violent
representation of defeated rivals.
“I’m gonna cut a hole in the
back of it and put the other
team’s mascot’s head through
so it looks like we ran ’em
over!” Knight said.
Knight’s soft-spoken, long
time tail-gating associate enjoys the excitement the elaborately decorated RV generates
in his fellow fans.
“I love it when people come
up asking for pictures of the
van,” Hecht said. “It’s all about
the cheering.”
-illegal use of hands (not
washing your hands before
and after handling raw food);
-off-sides (mixing cooked
and uncooked foods);
-equipment violations (deciding whether meat is fully
cooked based on color rather
than using a meat thermometer);
-and holding (keeping
cooked food out longer than
the recommended one hour).
Even though most people
know the risk of foodborne illnesses, sometimes the fun of
tailgating will trump safety.
“I don’t take any special
precautions because I trust my
own cooking,” said Sam Basha,
a 28-year-old from Dearborn
Heights. “We’re here to drink
and have a good time.”
“Foodborne
illnesses?
Bring it on,” said Rick Knight,
a 60-year-old University of
Michigan football fan from
Bloomfield. “We’re not worried;
the booze kills everything.”
Some tailgaters are not
concerned about foodborne
illnesses because of the trust
they have in the person cooking the food.
“We’re not too worried
about food safety,” said Stacy
Tilbury, 45, from Kalamazoo. “If
my husband cooks it, it’s good.”
Not every tailgater can say
they’ve never seen somebody
gets sick after a tailgate party.
“I had some friends (who)
got sick a few years back after
a tailgate,” said Jason Squires,
38, a tailgater from Davison.
“But I know how to barbecue.
I always check to make sure
my burgers are not pink inside
before I serve them.”
Even with the health concerns of foodborne illnesses
at tailgate parties, some fans
treat their parking-lot barbecues just as they would if they
were at home.
“It’s the same as barbecuing at home for us,” said
Lindsay Hosmer, 29, of Flint.
“We’ve never had a problem
tailgating.”
According to the USDA’s
press release, when it comes
to foodborne illnesses, there
is no opportunity for an instant replay, and tailgaters
need to make sure they understand food safety rules completely. The agency encourages anyone with questions or
concerns about food safety to
visit the website http://AskKaren.gov.
U-M football back in Top 25; OSU, MSU out
Matt Durr
Editor
For
the
first
time
since 2007,
the University of Michigan football
team ranked
higher than rivals Ohio State,
Michigan State and Notre
Dame.
According to the Sept. 18
Associated Press poll, U-M
was No. 22 in nation and none
of their rivals are ranked.
U-M entered the top 25 after a 3-0 start highlighted by
a thrilling come from behind,
35-31 victory against ND.
Down 24-7 entering the
fourth quarter, U-M scored
28 points in the final 15 minutes, including a game-winning drive that took only 28
seconds, to shock the Fighting Irish. The record crowd
of 114,804 came unglued as
wide receiver Roy Roundtree
pulled down a 16-yard pass
from quarterback Denard
Robinson with just two seconds left in the first-ever night
game at the Big House.
“The
play
to
Roy
(Roundtree), he told me in
the huddle ‘Denard, I got to
get ‘em, I got to get ‘em,’ and
he gave them a move, their
guy kind of held him and I just
threw it up,” Robinson said.
“and I knew he was going to
get it.”
While the Wolverines are
happy to be ranked again,
they’ve been here before and
the results have not been favorable. Last season, they
started 5-0 and were ranked
18th before losing to MSU and
finishing the year 7-6 – and
well out of the Top 25.
The Wolverines were
scheduled to face head coach
Brady Hoke’s former team,
San Diego State on Sept. 24
at Michigan Stadium. Check
for a recap of that game.
them since the two schools
had not met since 1903.
Either way, a tradition was
born.
The jug is painted with
both schools famous block
M and the year and score for
the game. The winning team
takes possession of the jug
immediately following the
game and retains possession
until it loses to its rival again.
For the most part, the
Wolverines have dominated
the rivalry since it was created compiling a record of
66-22-3 against the Golden
Gophers. Included in that record is a string of 16 straight
wins from 1987-2004.
The jug has not left possession of the Wolverines
since 2006 when they defeated Minnesota 28-14. The
trophy is on display inside
of Schembechler Hall on the
campus of Michigan.
Sipping from the Little Brown Jug
On Oct. 1, U-M and the
University of Minnesota will
battle for the “Little Brown
Jug” for 92nd time. The trophy is one of the oldest in college football and the history
of its tradition dates back
more than 100 years.
Legend has it that in 1903,
Michigan accidentally left
behind the five-gallon jug in
Minnesota after the teams
played to a 6-6 tie. Minnesota custodian Oscar Munson
New coaches
join Club Sports
Anna Fuqua-Smith
Food safety not a concern with tailgaters
Nathan Clark
The Washtenaw Voice
discovered the jug and gave
it to his superiors. Michigan
coach Fielding Yost wrote a
letter asking for the jug back,
but Minnesota Director of
Athletics L.J. Cooke allegedly told Yost “If you want
it, you’ll have to come up and
win it.”
It has also been said that
Cooke and Yost met prior to
the 1909 game and decided
together to play for the right
to take the jug home with
In 2009,
Ashley Penny
led
Davenport University with 30
solo blocks
and 101 blockassists.
PENNY ing
Later
that
year, she was crowned her
team’s most valuable player.
For Penny, 22, of Belleville,
bringing a great women’s volleyball team to Washtenaw
Community College is the
most important aspect of her
job – for the players as well as
the college.
“Being a part of a team is
like a family,” she said,
“and I just want the
women to feel
comfortable
at
school whether
they are freshman or juniors.”
While getting
to know her players, Penny said she
planned to choose a floor captain and a team captain.
“We have a very vocal
team, and already there are
five or six girls that are leaders. Choosing one will be difficult,” Penny said.
And Lemm has already
taken notice of Penny’s abilities as a coach.
“She’s very organized with
her practices. Their hour and
s half is full of new skills and
practices,” Lemm said. “She
brings a lot of excitement, and
the girls are having a ton of
fun. You can tell she wants to
be here.”
Penny said that playing in
Ann Arbor Rec and Ed
will be a challenge,
but would like to
develop the team
and a program
capable of competing with other colleges within the next year.
THOM BALES, CO-ED GOLF
For Thom
Bales,
community college
competition
is like a bridge
between youth
and collegiate
sports.
BALES
“Sports in
general offers
so much in terms of skill development, learning and how
to get along with others,” Bales
said.
A community college setting offers a place where people can actually participate in
sports, said Bales.
Originally from Tennessee,
Bales, 50, of Ann Arbor, didn’t
grow up in an area where golf
was a widely played sport. After his relocation to Ann Arbor,
Bales and his father decided to
take up golf as a father-andson activity.
What Bales didn’t know is
that he would later fall in love
with the sport and his father
would promptly quit after getting too frustrated with the game.
Bales has competed in several city tournaments for the
past eight years.
His goal is to coach the
players what they want and
need to learn.
“Golf is an individual-type
sport. You don’t always have a
teammate to make up for your
errors or flaws,” Bales said. “So
it’s really important to know
what the player wants to be
coached on.”
While tryouts started last
week, he plans to have 8-10
players on the team. The golf
season will only run for six
weeks in the Fall and then
picks back up in the spring.
“The great thing about
him is he’s focusing on what
the players want to learn.
He’s talked about one-on-one
mentoring with the players,”
Lemm said.
Lemm said she thinks Bales
will bring his playing experience into his coaching
because he’s played at
so many different levels.
BRIAN MOEGLIN, BASEBALL
For Brian Moeglin,
baseball
is
something he
thinks about
on a daily basis. Originally
MurMOEGLIN from
physboro, Ill.,
Moeglin, 39, of Howell, has
been playing the sport all his
life.
Moeglin played at Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau, Mo. After college, he
went on to play in the Frontier
League, a professional, independent minor league. After
that, Moeglin went on to play
in Germany for a year before
turning to coaching.
“What’s amazing about him
is he’s able to coach all different levels,” Lemm said. “Some
of the players he’s starting with
are beginners, and he can nurture them there. For the advanced players, he can switch
over to their level quickly.”
While competition is good,
Moeglin thinks the games will
be a good barometer for his
players.
“A goal, as far as the team,
is I would like each player, talent-wise, to be a better player
at the end of the season,” he
said.
For now, Moeglin
is looking forward
to spring to have a
chance to teach his
players in a longer
season.
“We want to
really start developing the program and we’re
already pushing
towards spring,”
he said. “I would
certainly be open
to playing other
club teams at
universities.”
CLUB SPORTS CALENDAR
INTRAMURAL SPORTS SCHEDULE
DROP-IN SPORTS
3-ON-3 SOCCER
Registration: Oct. 3-7
League Period: Oct. 18-Nov. 13
Location: WCC Athletic Fields
Co-Rec: Fridays from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Men’s: Tuesdays from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Women’s: Sundays from 4-6 p.m.
BASKETBALL
When: Every Thursday from 3:30-5:30
p.m. until Oct. 27
Location: WCC Athletic Fields
DODGE BALL
Registration: Oct. 31-Nov. 4
League Period: Nov. 13-Dec. 11
Location: Health and Fitness Center
Co-Rec: Sundays from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Participants can put together an entire team
or sign up individually.
Shin guards are recommended but not
required for Intramural Soccer.
Register at the WCC Club Sports office Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
FLAG FOOTBALL:
When: Every Thursday from 5-6:30
p.m. until Nov. 17
Where: Community Park
WCC students, employees and friends
are welcome. Footballs, flags and basketballs will be provided. Participants
will be required to fill out waivers at
the field prior to participating their
first time.
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The Lion is still king – in 3D
Adrian Hedden
MOVIE
Staff Writer
High atop the peaks of
Pride Rock, digging up bugs in
Timone and Pumbaa’s jungle
hideout and far away in the
bone tunnels of the forbidden
elephant graveyard, “The Lion
King 3D” applied state-of-theart Real-D technology to the
Disney classic with breathtaking results.
Animals and plants jut
out of the screen as a massive
increase in depth-of-field immerses the audience in the environments and carries them
deep into the stunning and
RATING PG-!%
RUNTIME &# MINUTES
distant, sprawling African wilderness.
Movie-goers of all ages
packed theaters on opening night, Sept. 16, eager to
be transfixed all over again as
Mufasa roared across generations, with lush, cinematic glory. The atmosphere was surreal, as mothers and fathers alike
could be heard uttering the
words of the iconic animals
under a hush of anticipation
at the glee that would soon be
gushing from their cubs.
Vines, branches and other
jungle foliage surrounded
viewers along with their beloved mammalian stars. Any
fears of heights were devastatingly put to the test on the
jaw-dropping, newly rendered
cliffs.
The beauty of the original “Lion King” was left unaltered, yet largely expanded
upon. Mainly consisting of
deeper depictions of the characters’ surroundings and environments, Real-D technology
highlighted the many settings
of “The Lion King” like never
before.
The three-dimensional environments allowed for more
dramatic shots created by
simulated camera rotations
on multiple planes and explo-
‘The Bang Bang Club’ offers fresh look at apartheid
Jared Angle
MOVIE
Photo Editor
Based on a 2000 book by
photographers João Silva and
Greg Marinovich, “The Bang
Bang Club” thrusts viewers into the world of apartheid in 1990s South Africa, as
seen through the eyes of four
award-winning combat photographers.
Directed by documentary
maker Steven Silver and starring Ryan Phillippe (“Cruel
Intentions,” “Crash”) and Taylor Kitsch (TV’s “Friday Night
Lights”) as Pulitzer-winning
photojournalists Greg Marinovich and Kevin Carter, the
movie depicts the final years
of racial segregation as the
four men document civil unrest and humanitarian crisis,
earning acclaim while risking
their lives – and sanity.
Outside of the white, middle-class neighborhoods of
Johannesburg, disagreements
arise between rival black political parties who are vying for
power in South Africa’s first
presidential election open to
black voters and candidates.
Once government influence
turns the two sides against
each other, protesting and rioting turn to widespread murders and a small civil war.
The lead characters of “The
Bang Bang Club” dodge bullets while trying to take their
photographs. In between the
bouts of political violence the
movie illustrates, the personal
lives of each character which
are intimately explored.
Through this mix of drama
and action, the movie has a
balance that ensures that the
audience will be satisfied despite their genre preference.
The script was kept close to
that of the book so that the
movie serves as a sort of pseudo-documentary, not straying
too far from actual events.
Despite strong cinematic qualities, the movie does
suffer from the Hollywood
‘Contagion’ will make your wallet feel ill
Nathan Clark
MOVIE
Contributor
Stop touching everything
and go wash your hands! In
the new film “Contagion,” the
germs are everywhere and
they want to kill you!
The movie follows the path
in a highly contagious virus
from one person to another
across the globe, leaving millions dead in its wake while
doctors and scientists rush to
find the virus’ point of origin
and a cure.
Some people might have
thought bird flu was overblown in the media, but the
virus in this film is no joke,
killing its victims within a few
days after infection.
“Contagion” is a film that
makes viewers reflect back
on past pandemic scares and
what could have happened if
little precaution was taken
and how fast society could
collapse in the midst of a pandemic outbreak.
The film, starring Matt
Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Laurence Fishburne and Jude
Law has very little character
development.
Matt Damon plays the role
of a husband and father who,
early in the film, loses his wife
(Paltrow) and son to the deadly new virus while he, oddly
enough, is immune to it. Fishburne plays the Director of
the Centers for Disease Con-
Ben Solis
MOVIE
When film companies
choose to put a spotlight on
the radical Middle East, the
tales associated with the brutal landscape are either that of
bloody rage or blatant propaganda against “Western capitalist tyranny.”
With “Persepolis,” the
2007 film (new on DVD)
based on the influential and
heart-wrenching graphic novel of the same name, the animated feature’s focus is less
about politics as it is a coming
of age yarn, while still looking
attentively at a freshly liberated Iran and the psychology
of its inhabitants.
“Persepolis” follows the
autobiographical story of
writer/illustrator
Marjane
Satrapi as she moves from
childhood to adolescence, all
the while trying to find her
place in a radical Islamic government that offers no room
for teenage expression.
In the beginning, Satrapi
is no less impressionable
than any young girl: she walks
around with a paramilitary
head band chanting “Down
with the Shah” after watch-
trol (CDC) who is trying desperately to contain the virus
without causing a panic, and
Law is the freelance reporter/
blogger who is convinced that
the seriousness of this viral
outbreak is being suppressed
by the government for the
profits of drug manufacturers.
The film doesn’t focus on
any particular character except for the virus itself being
passed from person to person.
The almost total lack of
character development makes
it easy to accept when anyone
in the film dies. The virus is
the only aspect of the film that
is focused on or developed
throughout the story.
“Contagion”
constantly
jumps from character to char-
ing a protest from her window
and is infatuated with almost
anyone who has been imprisoned for their beliefs.
As showcased in “Persepolis,” any leader other than
the country’s former Shah, or
emperor, was better than any
that would inevitably come
into power – a logical fallacy
that ends up in the loss of life
for many Satrapi’s family and
friends.
And while she does not
spend the majority of her
youth in Iran, the central
theme of the story is evergreen: no matter what country you live in, becoming an
Ben Solis
ALBUM
Rarely can an artist boast
complete control over her
own destiny while staying
true to herself in a landscape
riddled with manufactured
pop and rhythm and blues.
Luckily, St. Vincent, the
vehicle for singer-songwriter
Annie Clark, has always felt
comfortable in own her skin,
even when pushed in musical
directions that may be considered shallow waters by her
own fans.
Clark is an artist upon
whom both fans of Radiohead
and Bjork can agree, but her
music can be used as the fodder for rage against anything
eternally hip.
“Strange Mercy” may give
some merit to the latter argument, but her music defies the
trendy nature of major artists emulating an early ’80s
dance-pop sound.
Songs like “Chloe in The
Afternoon” and “Surgeon”
take whatever pop backdrop
Clark has built, to stage her
new direction and smashes it
on the floor. These songs have
more in common with Brian
Eno, David Bowie, David Byrne and the ’80s lineup of
progressive rock giants King
Crimson than they do with
songs from other contemporary electronic pop acts like
Ladytron or Florance and the
Machine.
“Strange Mercy” makes
those acts in particular look
tendency to change the appearances of actors from the
people they are based on. Most
notably, the actors selected
are slimmer and more muscular than their real-life counterparts and have salon-quality
hair, which I feel detracts from
the storytelling and turns an
otherwise laudable movie into
a beauty contest.
If you’re interested in a
good action movie, this is a
good one. But if you’re interested in the subject matter of this
movie, read the book first. Caution: It may move you to tears.
acter without connecting
them in any direct way, with
the exception of the virus,
making it hard to understand
what exactly is going on at
that particular time or why we
should care about what that
person is doing.
With its jumpy plot structure and the lack of character
development this movie could
have easily sold itself as a fake
documentary without the expected celebrity voiceover.
“Contagion” was fairly
entertaining and interesting
with its ideas on how society
could react to such a horrible
event, but it’s hardly worth
paying theater prices to see.
RATING PG-13
RUNTIME '#$MINUTES
adult is never. Whether traversing through Germany and
France or dodging Revolutionary guards after attending
a party, the drama is the same.
Will the person of my
dreams ever realize that I exist? Will I ever fit in? Will my
god-awfully ugly face and
body ever even out?
While the film is not a-political, the addition of this human element serves to show
just how much harder that
transition can be in a political system that denounces expression; and that deep down,
all of our struggles are the
same.
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“Persepolis” film adaptation conveys universal meaning – on video
Managing Editor
sive effects were added to the
action segments. Beneath the
hooves of a stampede or under
the claws of the sadistic Scar,
audiences gasped as this historic hero’s tale came to life.
Throughout “The Lion
King 3D,” from beginning to
end, song to song, Disney’s
newly designed Real-D technology was challenged with
perfecting its greatest opus
– and succeeded gloriously.
Movie-goers young and old
will rejoice as “The Lion King”
reigns on into the next dimension of family entertainment.
like immature newbies, pathetic followers of the same
trend that Clark is clearly following now.
Not only is the sound on
these songs more complex
than the admittedly layered
sound of her other albums,
its done in the way that New
Wave was administered in
the early ’80s: with artful intention and a do-it-yourself
mentality, even with master
producers playing within the
studio to create bombastic
landscapes of sound.
Again, “Strange Mercy”
may leave a bad taste in the
mouths of those who have followed the artist throughout
the years, and understandably
so.
While all the songs play
openly with sound, the
straightforward beats and the
obviously tailored pop hooks
– vocally and instrumentally
alike – on songs like “Cheerleader,” “Northern Lights,”
and “Dilettante,” leave much
to be desired.
But even on an album as
experimentally different as
this, even without Clark pushing her own musical boundaries, her soft crooning voice
was unaffected by the change
of pace.
Those who have called
the album redundant and innately hipster may have their
reasons backed by Mercy’s
already positive critical response, but they are clearly
missing the bigger picture.
Play
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1 What ice cream does in the
sun
6 Mythical weeper
11 With it
14 “Terrific!”
15 Play-of-color gems
16 Bambi’s aunt
17 “Get a grip!”
19 Albums kept in jewel
boxes, briefly
20 Dogpatch dad
21 Eat like a bird
23 Anti-alcohol types
25 Greenish-blue hue
28 Room for Renée
29 Stubbed extremity
30 Internet company
32 Bear’s advice
33 Screen partner
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42 More than fumed
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45 Green eggs and ham lover
__-am
48 Scrape, to a tot
51 __ culpa
52 Pizza’s outer edge
54 Scissors sound
55 With competence
56 Cardinal’s headgear
58 Film idol Greta
60 Connector that completes
the phrase made from the
starts of the three longest
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1 Brit. sports cars
2 West ender?
3 When presidential elections
occur
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5 Passenger pickup point
6 Reply to “Is it soup?”
7 Wall St. headline
8 Clumsy sort
9 Radar screen spot
10 Colorado’s __ Park
11 Badger at the comedy club
12 Ultimate goal
13 Muted, as colors
18 With 62-Down, at a satisfactory level
22 Othello’s lieutenant
23 Sot’s woe, briefly
24 Military prep org.
26 Did something about, as an
informant’s tip
27 Bread unit
30 Ten: Pref.
31 Former telecom firm
34 Overly ornate
36 Aware of
38 CIA Cold War counterpart
39 Some summer births,
astrologically
40 Like some gestures or
logic
41 Cad
44 Week segment
45 Collage materials
46 Convention sites
47 Work clumsily (through)
49 “I’m so not impressed”
event
50 Exotic sushi fish
53 Carton sealers
55 “Does this ring __?”
57 Legal wrong
59 McEntire of country
62 See 18-Down
63 Put away at dinnertime
64 Texter’s “Here’s what I
think”
65 Clean air org.
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Help Wanted
Employment
Classic Cup in Ann Arbor is looking for experienced servers for
mornings and afternoons. Apply in
person at 4389 Jackson Rd.
Below is a sample of recent employment want ads that have
been posted with WCC’s Employment Services Center. For more
information about these ads,
contact Employment Services at
(734) 677-5155, or visit SC287 to
review the complete posting.
Village Kitchen Restaurant in Ann
Arbor is looking for experienced
grill cooks, full-time and part-time.
Top pay. Apply at 241 N. Maple or
phone (734) 995-0054
Jimmy John’s is looking for sandwich-makers and delivery drivers in
the Fall semester. Send resume to
[email protected], or apply in person at the following Ann
Arbor/Ypsi stores: 929 East Ann St.;
600 Packard; 1207 S. University;
342 S. State St.; 2615 Plymouth
Road; 3365 Washtenaw Ave; or 537
W. Cross St.
Anthony’s Gourmet Pizza seeks
cooks and drivers. Apply at 1508 N.
Maple, Ann Arbor, or phone (734)
213-2500.
Roly Poly in Ann Arbor seeks drivers and kitchen staff to work in a
friendly family work environment.
Apply in person at 2414 E. Stadium
Blvd in the Trader Joe’s shopping
complex. For more information, contact Michelle at (734) 677-0686or email [email protected].
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We focus on warmth, caring, and
expert communication. Emphasis
on personal development through
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with other team members, and high
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Ypsilanti family dental practice with
2 doctors. Practice has extended
hours. Must be able to work some
evenings and some Saturdays. Some
experience in a dental office is required. Experience with Eaglesoft or
other dental software is a plus. Position is full-time, but part time may
be considered.
Service tech/ installer (2369910).
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& repair existing equipment.
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